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Why use ROS-Industrial for Industrial Robot Applications?

Technology Director, Erik Nieves from Yaskawa - Motoman Robotics gave a talk about Why industrial robot OEMs should care about ROS, on the 12th of May 2013 at ROScon in Stuttgart, Germany. I hope the whole robotic community was listening, because this talk emphasized the importance of ROS-Industrial and countered general OEM criticisms leveled at it for being an open source platform.

JA Carette
By JA Carette
on Apr 30, 2014 8:00 AM. 4 min read time
 
JA Carette
By JA Carette
on Apr 30, 2014 8:00 AM
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What is ROS and ROS-Industrial for Robots?

ROS is an open-source collaborative system designed to help share the code needed to manipulate your robot. Originally ROS was...

JA Carette
By JA Carette
on Apr 23, 2014 8:00 AM
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ROS-Industrial: open-source software in industrial robotics

A couple years ago Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) released an open-source software package which brings industrial...

Nicolas Lauzier
By Nicolas Lauzier
on Jan 31, 2014 2:00 AM
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Collaborative Robot Series : PR2 from Willow Garage

Willow Garage’s PR2 robot is the next in our collaborative robot series. This robot is slightly different than the others,...

Catherine Bernier
By Catherine Bernier
on Jun 27, 2013 1:32 PM
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Robotiq's Adaptive Robot Gripper Now on ROS-Industrial

A few months ago, I wrote a blog post on ROS-Industrial, an open-source software in industrial robotics. From my experience in...

Nicolas Lauzier
By Nicolas Lauzier
on Aug 10, 2012 10:11 AM
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What are the "must see" at ICRA 2012?

ICRA, which stands for International Conference on Robotics and Automation, is the largest conference of its kind in the world...

Nicolas Lauzier
By Nicolas Lauzier
on May 12, 2012 10:00 PM
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Autonomous Robot Grasping using ROS-Industrial

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article about ROS-Industrial, explaining how it could be used to create new applications for...

Nicolas Lauzier
By Nicolas Lauzier
on Mar 05, 2012 4:21 PM
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Robotics Industry Forum 2012: 10 interesting things that I've learned

I'm just back from a quick trip to Orlando where the decision makers of the North American robotics industry gathered under...

Samuel Bouchard
By Samuel Bouchard
on Jan 20, 2012 11:03 PM
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ROS for Industrial Robot

The open source Robot Operating System (ROS) from Willow Garage is finally adopted by a major industrial robot manufacturer....

Samuel Bouchard
By Samuel Bouchard
on Sep 21, 2011 9:53 AM
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