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The need for fast, accurate 3D mapping solutions has quickly become a reality for many industries wanting to adopt new technologies in AI and automation. New applications requiring these 3D mappi...

https://robohub.org/rapid-outdoorindoor-3d-mapping-with-a-husky-ugv/

Sriram Narasimhan’s research team are shaking things up in the Civil Engineering Structures Lab at the University of Waterloo. The research, which is led by Ph.D Candidate Kevin Goorts, is deve...

https://robohub.org/customer-story-deployable-autonomous-vibration-control-of-bridges-using-husky-ugv/

Clearpath Robotics, a leading provider of mobile robotic platforms for research and development, has partnered with ARGO XTR to release Warthog – a large, amphibious, all-terrain mobile robot ...

https://robohub.org/clearpath-robotics-launches-warthog-ugv-the-amphibious-robot/

The International Ground Vehicle Ground Competition (IGVC) is an annual event that brings together teams of college students from all over the globe to compete in an autonomous ground vehicle com...

https://robohub.org/interview-international-ground-vehicle-ground-competition-igvc-winner-on-bigfoot-2-husky-ugv/

Technology has been in development for the last decade and has now come to fruition in the form of self-driving vehicles. These vehicles are driving into industrial centers and beginning to repl...

https://robohub.org/4-reasons-why-industry-4-0-will-leave-agvs-behind/

To continue to prosper and grow, manufacturers need to embrace innovation to overcome some of the significant challenges they face in the day-to-day operation of their business. Here are just som...

https://robohub.org/5-innovation-challenges-in-materials-transport/

Amir Degani is an assistant professor at Technion Institute of Technology and Avi Kahnani is the CEO and Co-Founder of Israeli robotics start-up Fresh Fruits Robotics. Together, they are developi...

https://robohub.org/interview-the-team-behind-the-apple-harvesting-robot/

The New Year is upon us and with that comes predictions of what 2016 has in store. Will Automated Guided Vehicle (AGVs) continue to drive materials on the factory floor? What is ‘Industry 4.0�...

https://robohub.org/3-supply-chain-trends-to-watch-for-in-2016/

By Ilia Baranov A couple challenges with robotics is that robots are expensive and they usually depend on batteries. What if you want to run an experiment with 100 robots, running for 10 hours?...

https://robohub.org/simulating-in-maplesim/

By Rachel Gould Clearpath Robotics, in conjunction with airBridge, is proud to offer a $50,000 grant toward the purchase of the Grizzly Robotic Utility Vehicle for teams in 2016’s agBOT Robot...

https://robohub.org/agbot-robotic-seeding-challenge-powered-by-50k-grant-for-grizzly-ruv/

By Ilia Baranov In this new Robots 101 series, we will be taking a look at how robots work, what makes designing them challenging, and how engineers at Clearpath Robotics tackle these problems. T...

https://robohub.org/robots-101-lasers/

By Ryan Gariepy For our recent “hack week,” we teamed up with one of the most innovative visual technology companies in the world: Christie, which happens to be a quick 15 minute drive from ...

https://robohub.org/clearpath-and-christie-demo-3d-video-game-with-robots/

By Ilia Baranov Recently, Mathworks released a new toolbox for Matlab. This is exciting for a number of reasons: it includes everything from data analysis to coordination of multiple robots. In t...

https://robohub.org/matlab-robotics-system-toolbox-and-ros/

By Martin Cote After working in the terminal, gazebo and RViz, it’s time for a change of pace. For this ROS101 tutorial we’ll be detailing the basics of creating your own rqt dashboard! A da...

https://robohub.org/ros101-creating-your-own-rqt-dashboard/

By Martin Cote The Arduino family of micro controllers has quickly become a go-to board for hobbyists due to its ease of use. Often times roboticists must create communication protocols to allow ...

https://robohub.org/ros-arduino-and-a-husky-simulation/

By Paul Bovbel Udev is a device manager for Linux that dynamically creates and removes nodes for hardware devices. In short, it helps your computer find your robot easily. By default, hardware ...

https://robohub.org/do-more-with-udev/

By Martin Cote We previously learned how to write a publisher node to move Husky randomly. BUT! What good is publishing all these messages if no one is there to read it? In this tutorial we’ll...

https://robohub.org/ros101-creating-a-subscriber-using-git-hub/

By Meghan Hennessey NERVE Center, nerve-racking? Not for our bots! We put them to the test across all of the courses at NERVE Center and, we’re proud to say, they passed with flying colors. Wha...

https://robohub.org/nerve-center-the-robot-playground/

By Ryan Gariepy As we’ve made more of a name for ourselves within various startup communities,we’re commonly asked how we moved from our beginnings with little resources and no connections to...

https://robohub.org/building-a-robotics-company/

By Martin Cote In our previous post, we graduated from driving a Husky, to taking on a Grizzly! Now it’s time to get down and dirty with what ROS is really made of, nodes! We will first be c...

https://robohub.org/ros-101-creating-a-publisher-node/

By Meghan Hennessey We’ve been keeping a huge secret and now we’re ready to share it… Earlier this year, Army Research Labs (ARL) contracted us to design an affordable, portable research pl...

https://robohub.org/clearpath-introduces-jackal-their-new-unmanned-ground-vehicle/

By Ryan Gariepy I recently spent over a week in Montreal talking with – and learning from – the Canadian field robotics community, first at the Computer and Robot Vision (CRV) conference and...

https://robohub.org/grizzly-on-the-mars-emulation-terrain-at-ncfrn/

So you have had a taste of driving a virtual Husky in our previous tutorial, but now want to try something a little bigger? How about 2000 lbs bigger? Read on to learn how to drive a (virtual) G...

https://robohub.org/ros-101-drive-a-grizzly-2/

Happy Birthday!! Clearpath is officially 5 years old and what better way to celebrate than let all of our fans drive a robot. No matter where you are in the world, you can experience what it’s ...

https://robohub.org/tweet-to-drive-a-robot/

In the previous ROS 101 post, we showed how easy it is to get ROS going inside a virtual machine, publish topics and subscribe to them. If you haven’t had a chance to check the out all the pre...

https://robohub.org/ros-101-drive-a-husky/

In the previous ROS 101 post, we provided a quick introduction to ROS to answer questions like What is ROS? and How do I get started? Now that you understand the basics, here’s how they ca...

https://robohub.org/ros-101-a-practical-example/

Clearpath Robotics brings us a new tutorial series on ROS! Since we practically live in the Robot Operating System (ROS), we thought it was time to share some tips on how to get started with ROS....

https://robohub.org/ros-101-intro-to-the-robot-operating-system/