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ROBOTCORE

ROBOTCORE® Collaborative unveiled for Human-Robot Interaction Without Aggression. Hardware-Accelerated Dynamic Collision Avoidance Collaborative Behavior

ROBOTCORE Collaborative: Human-Robot Interaction without aggression. Hardware-accelerated dynamic collision avoidance for collaborative robot behaviors. Both available for CPU and FPGAs. ROS 2 API-compatible aligned with ros2_control.

Oct 4, 2024
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Hardware Acceleration

Acceleration Robotics makes robots faster in La Rioja - Automotive Cluster Winners!

Acceleration Robotics receives the first prize at the La Rioja Automotive Cluster for its projects on hardware acceleration in robotics. Making robots faster via custom compute architectures.

Jul 8, 2024
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ROBOTCORE ROS 2

Acceleration Robotics announces ROBOTCORE® ROS 2 and RTPS, Boosting ROS 2 Communications from 62x to Thousands-Fold Faster

ROBOTCORE® ROS 2 and RTPS Boost ROS 2 Communications from 62x to Thousands-Fold Faster. Robot to robot communications in 2.5 microseconds with ROS 2.

Nov 21, 2023
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ROBOTCORE UDP/IP

Acceleration Robotics unveils ROBOTCORE® UDP/IP for Ultra-Fast, Deterministic Robot Networking Communications

Acceleration Robotics unveils ROBOTCORE UDP/IP, an FPGA UDP/IP Networking Stack to push Robots to Nanosecond Speeds

Nov 20, 2023
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RobotPerf

Announcing the RobotPerf™ Benchmarks Beta Release: An industry standard for benchmarking robotic brains

RobotPerf™ is the benchmarking suite to evaluate robotics computing performance fairly with ROS 2 as its common baseline. We introduce its beta release with many updates and new results.

Sep 15, 2023
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meta-ros

Yocto, ROS 2, and Hardware Acceleration: A Production-Grade Trio for Robotics

Discuss integration of ROS 2 Humble into Yocto and PetaLinux, and why hardware acceleration plays a vital role in this process

Sep 14, 2023
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Autoware

Autoware Accelerators, Application-specific system-on-chip (SoC) and software platform for autonomous vehicles (robots)

Axell's and Tier IV's groundbreaking System-on-Chip tailored for autonomous driving and the unmatched prowess of Autoware Accelerators. The synergy between the two promises unparalleled performance in the future of autonomous vehicle technologies.

Aug 16, 2023
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RobotPerf

Acceleration Robotics leads RobotPerf™ Benchmarks to its first "alpha" release

Acceleration Robotics discloses the inaugural "alpha" release of the RobotPerf™ benchmark suite, a robotics computing performance standard that benchmarks technologies from leading silicon vendors such as AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, and NVIDIA. The suite offers unbiased benchmarks and operates on ROS 2.

Jul 11, 2023
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Hiring

Acceleration Robotics is growing

Acceleration Robotics is growing. Join us to build semiconductor building blocks for robots while using leading hardware acceleration technologies

Mar 1, 2023
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Acceleration Robotics

PRESS RELEASE: Acceleration Robotics joins AESEMI to lead the Processor Architectures Working Group

Acceleration Robotics joins AESEMI to lead the Processor Architectures Working Group. The robotics semiconductor company joins a dozen other organizations to position Spanish talent on the international semiconductor scene.

Jan 17, 2023
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ROS 2

ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group 2022 dissemination report

The ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group (HAWG) launched new projects in 2022 including RobotPerf, the Robotics MCU or the Robotics Processing Unit and achieved a 3.7x growth in outreach over 2021

Jan 16, 2023
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ROS

Is Open Robotics acquisition by Intrinsic a good thing?

Intrinsic (Google) recognizes that ROS will play an important role in the growing robotics market. This is a good thing for the robotics industry in general. We hope it will help addressing some of the outstanding issues in ROS such as documentation, ease-of-use, security or leveraging modern AI.

Dec 16, 2022
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RobotPerf

RobotPerf benchmarks, the benchmarking suite to evaluate robotics computing performance using ROS 2

RobotPerf provides an open reference benchmarking suite that is used to evaluate robotics computing performance fairly with ROS 2 as its common baseline, so that robotic architects can make informed decisions about the hardware and software components of their robotic systems.

Dec 13, 2022
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Acceleration Robotics

Acceleration Robotics collaborating with Microchip to fasten robot computations with ROS 2 and RISC-V FPGA SoCs

Acceleration Robotics collaborating with Microchip to fasten robot computations with ROS 2 and RISC-V FPGA SoCs

Dec 1, 2022
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ROS 2

REP 2008, ROS 2 Hardware acceleration architecture and conventions - final review and draft vote

The ROS Enhancement Proposal (REP) 2008 aims to describe the architectural pillars and conventions required to introduce hardware acceleration in ROS 2 in a vendor-neutral manner. The ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration group will vote on it next December 13th during the upcoming meeting.

Nov 28, 2022
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Hardware Acceleration

Acceleration Robotics expands to India and takes over TechnoYantra to grow in Asia

The company offers semiconductor building blocks for robots and consulting services specialized in the Robot Operating System (ROS). Will grow its business in the semiconductors and autonomous mobility fields through hardware acceleration.

Nov 3, 2022
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ROSCon

An open architecture for Hardware Acceleration in robotics and ROS 2 - ROSCon 2022

In this ROSCon 2022 talk, Víctor presented the architectural pillars and conventions required to introduce hardware acceleration in ROS 2 in a scalable and technology-agnostic manner.

Oct 30, 2022
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Hardware Acceleration

2022 Hardware Acceleration Report in Robotics

The 2022 Hardware Acceleration Report in Robotics captures the state-of-the art of hardware acceleration in robotics and presents robotic architects with a resource to consider while designing their robot brains.

Oct 14, 2022
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Tesla

About Tesla's Optimus robot brain, a robotics hardware and software computer architecture perspective

This article studies Tesla's Optimus Bot Brain from a hardware and software computer architecture perspective. Shortly, they should consider reusing open source software and hardware resources.

Oct 5, 2022
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ROBOTCORE

Acceleration Robotics announce and open sources ROBOTCORE®, the first Robotic Processing Unit – specialized in ROS computations

Acceleration Robotics announce and open sources ROBOTCORE®, the first Robotic Processing Unit – specialized in ROS computations

Sep 29, 2022
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PlanV

PRESS RELEASE: Acceleration Robotics and PlanV collaborating to create a robotics microcontroller unit (MCU) powered by RISC-V and ROS 2

The Robotics MCU. Acceleration Robotics and PlanV collaborating to create a robotics microcontroller unit (MCU) powered by RISC-V and ROS 2

Sep 23, 2022
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ROS

Acceleration Robotics collaborating with AMD to design next-generation robotic compute architectures with ROS

Acceleration Robotics collaborating with AMD to design next-generation robotic compute architectures with ROS 2

Sep 19, 2022
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ROBOTCORE

The ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Stack and ROBOTCORE®

The core of robots resides in their computing systems. We discuss the ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration stack to create custom compute architectures and its ROBOTCORE™ implementation

Jun 20, 2022
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Yocto

ROS 2 Humble Hawksbill with Yocto and PetaLinux

Yocto allows you to build a customized Linux system for your use case. For robotics, in combination with ROS, Yocto helps you build a custom operating system for robots. We discuss how to get ROS 2 Humble into a Yocto or PetaLinux project and why this is relevant for hardware acceleration.

May 17, 2022
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Perception

Hardware Accelerating ROS 2 Nodes for Perception

Robots moving faster require faster perception computations happening at the edge. We discuss how hardware acceleration empowers faster robots and benchmark accelerators showing how ROS 2 Nodes in AMD FPGAs are 500x faster than NVIDIA's GPUs.

Apr 26, 2022
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Hardware Acceleration

ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Architecture and Conventions - REP-2008, version 2

Architectural pillars and conventions required to introduce hardware acceleration in ROS 2 in a scalable and technology-agnostic manner.

Apr 18, 2022
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ROS 2

Hardware accelerated ROS 2 pipelines and towards the Robotic Processing Unit (RPU)

We show how FPGAs compare to GPUs for ROS 2 graphs and propose the Robotic Processing Units (RPU), robot-specific processors that map ROS computational graphs efficiently to CPUs, FPGAs and GPUs to obtain best peformance.

Mar 29, 2022
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ROS

Modern Robotics Compute Architectures

Robot behaviors are often built as computational graphs, with data flowing from sensors to compute technologies, all the way down to actuators and back. Roboticists must map these graph-like structures efficiently to computing platforms to obtain best performance.

Mar 27, 2022

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ROBOTCORE

ROBOTCORE® Collaborative unveiled for Human-Robot Interaction Without Aggression. Hardware-Accelerated Dynamic Collision Avoidance Collaborative Behavior

ROBOTCORE Collaborative: Human-Robot Interaction without aggression. Hardware-accelerated dynamic collision avoidance for collaborative robot behaviors. Both available for CPU and FPGAs. ROS 2 API-compatible aligned with ros2_control.

Oct 4, 2024

Hardware Acceleration

Acceleration Robotics makes robots faster in La Rioja - Automotive Cluster Winners!

Acceleration Robotics receives the first prize at the La Rioja Automotive Cluster for its projects on hardware acceleration in robotics. Making robots faster via custom compute architectures.

Jul 8, 2024

Qualcomm

Hardware Accelerating ROS 2 Perception on the Qualcomm RB5 Robotics Kit

This report highlights how integrating the Qualcomm RB5 Robotics Kit with ROS 2 leverages hardware acceleration to significantly enhance robotic perception, achieving up to 400% speed improvements in image-processing pipelines.

Mar 7, 2024

India

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #91

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. India’s first edition of ROSCon 2023 energises robotics community in country, Learnings from recent robotics investment data, CHIPS act and U.S. fabs, Chinese chip companies are turning to Malaysia for their high-end chip, GPU needs

Dec 22, 2023

India

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #90

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Indian robotics is shackled by high duties. The government must free it, A venture capitalist's perspective on robotics, NVIDIA Isaac Sim on AWS to ease robotics development, Intel stands by record semiconductor investment despite German budget problems

Dec 15, 2023

ROBOTCORE ROS 2

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #89

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Acceleration robotics launches ROBOTCORE ROS 2 hardware, Robotics investment for October 2023 totals $980 million, Robotics funding saw another dip in 2023, Siemens and Intel to collaborate on advanced semiconductor manufacturing

Dec 8, 2023

Semiconductors

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #88

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Semiconductors headed toward strong 2024, Intel will spend $25 billion on manufacturing its new chips at TSMC, China’s pursuit of autonomous machine computing self-sufficiency

Dec 1, 2023

ROBOTCORE

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #87

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Acceleration Robotics announces ROBOTCORE® ROS 2 and RTPS, boosting ROS 2 communications from 62x to thousands-fold faster, Acceleration Robotics unveils ROBOTCORE® UDP/IP for ultra-fast, deterministic robot networking communications

Nov 24, 2023

ROBOTCORE ROS 2

Acceleration Robotics announces ROBOTCORE® ROS 2 and RTPS, Boosting ROS 2 Communications from 62x to Thousands-Fold Faster

ROBOTCORE® ROS 2 and RTPS Boost ROS 2 Communications from 62x to Thousands-Fold Faster. Robot to robot communications in 2.5 microseconds with ROS 2.

Nov 21, 2023

ROBOTCORE UDP/IP

Acceleration Robotics unveils ROBOTCORE® UDP/IP for Ultra-Fast, Deterministic Robot Networking Communications

Acceleration Robotics unveils ROBOTCORE UDP/IP, an FPGA UDP/IP Networking Stack to push Robots to Nanosecond Speeds

Nov 20, 2023

ROSCon

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #86

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. ROSCon 2023 talks, The European Innovation Council has approved €1 billion in deep tech venture investments in one year, California is the robotics capital of the world, Agile robots acquires Franka Emika

Nov 17, 2023

Semiconductor

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #85

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. China plans to mass produce humanoids by 2025, Vietnam sets sights on becoming semiconductor hub, Nvidia plans to release three new chips for China, EFPGA architectural improvements that lower test cost and increase quality

Nov 10, 2023

Robotics

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #84

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. September 2023 robotics investments total $1.84 billion, Thoughts on ROSCon 2023, Reflections on ROS in Asia, AMD sees profit surge as it banks on AI chips, System-on-Chip integration complexity and hardware/Software contracts

Nov 3, 2023

India

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #83

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. India’s path to becoming a global semiconductor hub: A transformative journey, ROS Robotics Companies, The path to Chiplet architecture, Building openness into industrial robotics

Oct 27, 2023

robots

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #82

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Working with robots can make humans put in less effort, Google and Qualcomm team up for wearable devices chip, Why AMD’s upcoming chips won’t be the savior AI startups are hoping for

Oct 20, 2023

ROS

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #81

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Vote now: 2023 ROS 2 technical steering committee community representative election, Integrating ROS 2 with Microchip’s PolarFire® SoC FPGA, August 2023 robotics investments total US $851 million, Is Nvidia abusing its market position?

Oct 13, 2023

Robotics

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #80

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. 15 largest industrial robotics markets in 2022, Nvidia offices raided by French authorities in anti-trust investigation, North America industrial robot orders drop for second quarter, AMD's latest FPGA promises lower latency stock trading bots

Oct 6, 2023

Robotics

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #79

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Robotics market will be worth $218 billion by 2030, The chips act is here to make the EU an ‘innovation powerhouse’, Intel hit with $400 million EU antitrust fine in decades-old case, Intel updates FPGA product line

Sep 29, 2023

RobotPerf

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #78

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Announcing the RobotPerf™ benchmarks beta release: An industry standard for benchmarking robotic brains, Yocto, ROS 2, and hardware acceleration: A production-grade trio for robotics, Intel adds cost-optimized FPGAs with RISC-V option

Sep 22, 2023

India

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #77

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Modi wants to make India a chip-making superpower. Can he?, What's new in China's robotics market?, July chip sales edge up, but are still well behind last year, Rockwell automation acquiring AMR developer Clearpath robotics

Sep 16, 2023

RobotPerf

Announcing the RobotPerf™ Benchmarks Beta Release: An industry standard for benchmarking robotic brains

RobotPerf™ is the benchmarking suite to evaluate robotics computing performance fairly with ROS 2 as its common baseline. We introduce its beta release with many updates and new results.

Sep 15, 2023

meta-ros

Yocto, ROS 2, and Hardware Acceleration: A Production-Grade Trio for Robotics

Discuss integration of ROS 2 Humble into Yocto and PetaLinux, and why hardware acceleration plays a vital role in this process

Sep 14, 2023

Robotics

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #76

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. July 2023 robotics investments total US $2.1 billion, North American robot orders drop for 2nd quarter in a row, FPGA boosts detection area for automotive camera, Why is the China chip fund preparing its largest funding round yet?

Sep 8, 2023

ROS

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #75

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. How to simplify robotics research with a native, ROS-based system, Predicting the future for semiconductors, Global ‘chips acts’ open debate about best way forward, Could the GPU crisis put India’s innovation at stake?

Sep 1, 2023

Autoware Accelerators

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #74

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Autoware accelerators, application-specific system-on-chip (Soc) and software platform for autonomous vehicles (robots), How Intel, Samsung and TSMC are changing the world, Semiconductor skills shortage may escalate to ‘crisis’ by 2030

Aug 25, 2023

Semiconductor

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #73

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. ROSCon 2023 comes to INDIA, Turnaround in semiconductor market, TIER IV and Axell unveil Autoware Accelerator prototypes: Building energy-efficient autonomous vehicles, Semiconductor companies look to drive RISC-V ecosystem and hardware development

Aug 18, 2023

Autoware

Autoware Accelerators, Application-specific system-on-chip (SoC) and software platform for autonomous vehicles (robots)

Axell's and Tier IV's groundbreaking System-on-Chip tailored for autonomous driving and the unmatched prowess of Autoware Accelerators. The synergy between the two promises unparalleled performance in the future of autonomous vehicle technologies.

Aug 16, 2023

FPGA

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #72

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. The rise of FPGA technology in high-performance computing, A stable heartbeat for the world of electronics, Why people are still key to tech transformation, The Next Generation Of Embedded FPGA, How Taiwan saved the semiconductor industry

Aug 11, 2023

Robotics

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #71

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. June 2023 robotics investments total US $2.1 billion, Chip experts see talent shortage as main growth hurdle, AMD announces plan to invest approximately $400 million over the next five years to expand research, development and engineering operations in India

Aug 4, 2023

Chips

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #70

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Europe’s strategy to boost its computer chip industry and compete with Asia gets final approval, Robot operating system advances left up to industry, The golden age of custom silicon draws near, Simplifying ROS 2 development with a graphical interface

Jul 28, 2023

robots

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #69

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Industrial robot components market worth more than $18B by 2027, How India is working to become the semiconductor hub globally in the next 10 years?, Humanoids ready to take first steps, Time for India to safeguard and boost its semiconductor ecosystem

Jul 21, 2023

RobotPerf

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #68

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Acceleration Robotics leads RobotPerf™ Benchmarks to its first "alpha" release, Broadcom to invest in a $1 billion EU-funded chip programme in Spain, The growth of RISC-V across industries, China's eastern city builds better environment for software industry

Jul 14, 2023

RobotPerf

Acceleration Robotics leads RobotPerf™ Benchmarks to its first "alpha" release

Acceleration Robotics discloses the inaugural "alpha" release of the RobotPerf™ benchmark suite, a robotics computing performance standard that benchmarks technologies from leading silicon vendors such as AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, and NVIDIA. The suite offers unbiased benchmarks and operates on ROS 2.

Jul 11, 2023

Semiconductor

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #67

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Industrial robot market to grow 5-7% out to 2027, Semiconductor capex down in 2023, May 2023 robotics investments total US $526 million, AI tool builds fully functional CPU, What type of robot should you use?

Jul 7, 2023

AMD

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #66

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. AMD introduces world’s largest FPGA-based adaptive SoC for emulation and prototyping, The state of Europe’s AMR market, VDMA: German robotics industry to hit an all-time high in 2023, Rise of the robots raises a big question: What will workers do?

Jun 30, 2023

Chipmaker

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #65

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Chipmakers' plans for factories in Europe, US and Asia, Intel and Germany sign agreement for $32.8 billion chip plant investment, Key takeaways from robotics invest 2023, Flowstate: Intrinsic’s app to simplify the creation of robotics applications

Jun 23, 2023

Robotics

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #64

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. EU signs off on €8.1bn for communications and microchip R&D, Interact Analysis predicts robotic picking market to grow to $6.8 billion by 2030, With $1.4 billion investment, Texas hopes to sprint to the front of the microchip manufacturing race

Jun 16, 2023

ChatGPT

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #63

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. What does ChatGPT mean for robotics?, AMD and MassRobotics announce robotics startup challenge to accelerate robotics innovation, Harvard dropouts raise $5 million for LLM accelerator, NVIDIA unveils updates for metropolis for factories, Isaac AMR & more

Jun 9, 2023

NVIDIA

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #62

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Nvidia hits $1 trillion market cap, Britain unveils $1.2B strategy to boost computer chip industry, March 2023 robotics investments total US $526 million, AMD rolls high-performance processors for automotive usage,Understanding the geopolitics of the microchip

Jun 2, 2023

ROS 2

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #61

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. ROS 2 Iron Irwini released!, Industrial robotics market size to reach USD 77.31 BN by 2032, Is NVIDIA becoming a CPU supplier, competing with Intel and AMD?, ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group #23

May 26, 2023

Intrinsic

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #60

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Intrinsic Flowstate aims to change robotic software development, Chip manufacturing ‘Ideal application’ for AI, nvidia ceo says, Chip war without soldiers, Can Intel bounce back?, Soft robotics and new materials will have the biggest impact on industry

May 19, 2023

India

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #59

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. India’s robot installations hit an all-time high, Nvidia business model, India surging up the industrial robot ranks, ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group #22, ROS India Summit 2023, Internet of robotic things market is likely to surpass $210 billion

May 12, 2023

ROS

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #58

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Acceleration Robotics hosts ROS developers meet-up in Delhi, India, Global chip sales and wafer shipments drop again in Q1, March 2023 robotics investments total US $526 million, Logistics robots market set to grow to almost $40 billion by 2033

May 5, 2023

Acceleration Robotics

Acceleration Robotics hosts ROS Developers Meet-up in Delhi, India

Acceleration Robotics organized the ROS Developers Meet in India with the goal of creating a cohesive community of Indian ROS Developers.

May 1, 2023

robots

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #57

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Design IP Sales Grew 20.2% in 2022 after 19.4% in 2021 and 16.7% in 2020, Demand for robot vision system is anticipated to reach $7 billion by 2033, ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group #20, What to expect from AMD’s Q1 results?

Apr 28, 2023

Semiconductor

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #56

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. EU legislators strike deal on €43B chips plan, Global semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales reach all-time record $108 billion, Over 150,000 picking robots to be installed by 2030, AV Compute: Deploying to an edge supercomputer

Apr 21, 2023

India

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #55

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. India is the world’s next tech manufacturing hub, EU chips act likely to get green light on April 18 -sources, Non-industrial robots market expected to grow 19 percent a year, Researchers find robots create jobs in long term, ROS, wherever you are

Apr 14, 2023

ROS 2

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #54

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. The age of acceleration engines, Keys to using ROS 2 & other frameworks for medical robots, Autonomous mobile robots market expected to expand at 22 percent a year, Nvidia expands availability of its robotics development software and hardware

Apr 7, 2023

Automotive industry

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #53

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Robotekin, the Basque robotics and automation association, Automotive industry sets record by employing 1M robots, February 2023 robotics investments total US $620 million, Nvidia speeds key Chipmaking computation by 40x

Mar 31, 2023

NVIDIA

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #52

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Nvidia works with TSMC, ASML and Synopsis on software to speed up chipmaking, Keys to developing autonomous vehicle software, NVIDIA is making AI easier to use, Microchip speeds design of FPGA-based satellite systems

Mar 24, 2023

ROS 2

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #51

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. PRESS RELEASE: Peer Robotics partners with Acceleration Robotics to bring hardware acceleration to their collaborative AMR, ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group #16, Acceleration robotics hosts ROS developers meet-up in Bangalore, India

Mar 17, 2023

Acceleration Robotics

Peer Robotics partners with Acceleration Robotics to bring hardware acceleration to their collaborative AMR

Acceleration Robotics, who leads the ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration community efforts, will work with Peer Robotics to improve performance in the mobile robotics stack beyond prevalent market standards.

Mar 16, 2023

ROS

Acceleration Robotics hosts ROS Developers Meet-up in Bangalore, India

Acceleration Robotics organized the ROS Developers Meet in India with the goal of creating a cohesive community of Indian ROS Developers.

Mar 13, 2023

Chips

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #50

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. How the EU chips act could build "Innovation capacity" in Europe, How Efinix is conquering the hurdle of hardware acceleration for devices at the edge, Figure promises first general-purpose humanoid robot, Intel pushes out hybrid CPU-GPU compute beyond 2025

Mar 10, 2023

HAWG

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #49

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. ROS 2 HAWG - meeting #15, 600 for-profit companies using ROS and ROS 2, Acceleration Robotics is growing, January 2023 robotics investments total US $521 million, Biden’s chip war with China is an imperial struggle for high-tech supremacy

Mar 3, 2023

Hiring

Acceleration Robotics is growing

Acceleration Robotics is growing. Join us to build semiconductor building blocks for robots while using leading hardware acceleration technologies

Mar 1, 2023

RobotPerf

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #48

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. RobotPerf, benchmarking interest for robots grows, PRESS RELEASE: Acceleration Robotics announces the 1st meeting of the Architectures and Processors Working Group (GTAP) of the AESEMI, How ChatGPT can control robots

Feb 24, 2023

AESEMI

Acceleration Robotics announces the 1st meeting of the Architectures and Processors Working Group (GTAP) of the Spanish Association of the Semiconductor Industry (AESEMI)

Acceleration Robotics announces the 1st meeting of the Architectures and Processors Working Group (GTAP) of the Spanish Association of the Semiconductor Industry (AESEMI)

Feb 21, 2023

RobotPerf

RobotPerf, benchmarking interest for robots grows

The RobotPerf project is growing within the ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group. Meeting weekly now to benchmark and discuss robot computations.

Feb 20, 2023

ROS

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #47

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. ROS 2 HAWG #15, 2022 ROS 2 metrics report, Robot sales reach a new high in 2022, When will the mobile robot market consolidate?, Why roboticists should prioritize human factors, Here’s how India is turning the US-China chip war into its advantage

Feb 17, 2023

robots

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #46

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. China overtakes USA in robot density, 3 ways semiconductors enhance automation and efficiency, 10 industries China is focusing on automating, Semiconductor world in for a rough ride as chip bubble bursts at the high end

Feb 10, 2023

Robotics

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #45

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. ROS 2 HAWG - meeting #14, What slowdown? - December 2022 robotics investments reaches $1.14B, India and UAE need to form a strategic alliance over robotics, AMD and Intel reports fourth quarter and full year 2022 financial results

Feb 3, 2023

ROS

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #44

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. ROS developers meet-up organised by acceleration robotics, China unveils new plan for wider robot use from manufacturing to agriculture, as population shrinks, AMD powers DENSO's next-gen automotive lidar systems

Jan 27, 2023

HAWG

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #43

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. ROS 2 HAWG#14, Acceleration robotics joins AESEMI to lead new processor architectures, ROS 2 hardware acceleration working group (HAWG) in 2022, How human language accelerated robotic learning, How Nvidia’s CUDA monopoly in machine learning is breaking

Jan 20, 2023

ROS

ROS Developers Meet-up organised by Acceleration Robotics

Acceleration Robotics organized the ROS Developers Meet in India with the goal of creating a cohesive community of Indian ROS Developers.

Jan 20, 2023

Acceleration Robotics

PRESS RELEASE: Acceleration Robotics joins AESEMI to lead the Processor Architectures Working Group

Acceleration Robotics joins AESEMI to lead the Processor Architectures Working Group. The robotics semiconductor company joins a dozen other organizations to position Spanish talent on the international semiconductor scene.

Jan 17, 2023

ROS 2

ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group 2022 dissemination report

The ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group (HAWG) launched new projects in 2022 including RobotPerf, the Robotics MCU or the Robotics Processing Unit and achieved a 3.7x growth in outreach over 2021

Jan 16, 2023

robots

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #42

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Can the U.S. bring chip manufacturing home?, The best tech of CES 2023, Teaching old robots new tricks, Qualcomm develops one automotive chip to rule them all, China may have to reassess chip strategy in face of US sanctions

Jan 13, 2023

Robotics

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #41

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. ROS Meetup, Does 2+2=4? Microchip announces PolarFire 2; You do the math, Robots at CES 2023, 2023 robotics predictions from industry experts, Sectors facing headwinds, Intel settles to escape $4b patent suit with VLSI

Jan 6, 2023

robots

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #40

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Robot sales on track to hit a new high in 2022, Where all the semiconductor investments are going, North American robot sales on track for another record year for 2022, RISC-V pushes into the mainstream

Dec 30, 2022

RobotPerf

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #39

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. May the best robot win, Auto chips seen as biggest revenue producer in ‘23: KPMG survey, Europe to dish out €270 million to build RISC-V hardware and software, Should you use ROS as an interface layer?

Dec 23, 2022

ROS

Is Open Robotics acquisition by Intrinsic a good thing?

Intrinsic (Google) recognizes that ROS will play an important role in the growing robotics market. This is a good thing for the robotics industry in general. We hope it will help addressing some of the outstanding issues in ROS such as documentation, ease-of-use, security or leveraging modern AI.

Dec 16, 2022

HAWG

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #38

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. ROS 2 HAWG - meeting #13, Intrinsic acquires OSRC and OSRC-SG, Mobile robot shipments increased by 53% in 2022, Making sure AMD has the complete tech package, Researchers develop AV object detection system with 96% accuracy

Dec 16, 2022

RobotPerf

RobotPerf benchmarks, the benchmarking suite to evaluate robotics computing performance using ROS 2

RobotPerf provides an open reference benchmarking suite that is used to evaluate robotics computing performance fairly with ROS 2 as its common baseline, so that robotic architects can make informed decisions about the hardware and software components of their robotic systems.

Dec 13, 2022

Robotics

Acceleration Robotics @ IoTShow in Bangalore, India

Gaurav Vikhe and Prateek Nagras had the opportunity to showcase Acceleration Robotics’ work on hardware acceleration and present a workshop on ROS 2.

Dec 10, 2022

robots

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #37

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. China surpasses U.S. in robot density, India in the Era of ‘Silicon Diplomacy’, Japan to open roads to autonomous vehicles in 2023, Mercedes-Benz and Bosch driverless parking system approved for commercial use

Dec 9, 2022

ROS 2

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #36

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Acceleration Robotics collaborating with Microchip to fasten robot computations with ROS 2 and RISC-V FPGA SoCs, REP 2008, ROS2 Hardware acceleration architecture and conventions, GPU shipments saw biggest nosedive since noughties recession

Dec 2, 2022

Acceleration Robotics

Acceleration Robotics collaborating with Microchip to fasten robot computations with ROS 2 and RISC-V FPGA SoCs

Acceleration Robotics collaborating with Microchip to fasten robot computations with ROS 2 and RISC-V FPGA SoCs

Dec 1, 2022

ROS 2

REP 2008, ROS 2 Hardware acceleration architecture and conventions - final review and draft vote

The ROS Enhancement Proposal (REP) 2008 aims to describe the architectural pillars and conventions required to introduce hardware acceleration in ROS 2 in a vendor-neutral manner. The ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration group will vote on it next December 13th during the upcoming meeting.

Nov 28, 2022

Robotics

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #35

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Robotics and ROS 2 in the PolarFire® SoC FPGA, Outdoor mobile robot shipments 'to hit 350,000 by 2030', No, autonomous vehicles aren’t dead, University of Texas to study how people interact with robots in public

Nov 25, 2022

ROS2

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #34

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. ROS2 HAWG #13, Robotics markets: up, down or just sideways?, Nvidia offers new advanced chip for China that meets U.S. export controls, SiPearl works with AMD on GPU support for Arm HPC chip, Transforming robots help to transfer skills

Nov 18, 2022

Semiconductor

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #33

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. ROS 2 HAWG - meeting #12, Why are some companies still short semiconductor chips when others are swimming in them?, TSMC reportedly building 1nm chip fab in northern Taiwan, AMD has launched two Xilinx FPGAs optimised for cost in embedded applications

Nov 11, 2022

Hardware Acceleration

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #32

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Acceleration Robotics expands to India and takes over TechnoYantra to grow in Asia, An open architecture for hardware acceleration in robotics and ROS 2 - ROSCon 2022, Chinese firms may be allowed in high-tech electronics in JV with Indian companies

Nov 4, 2022

Hardware Acceleration

Acceleration Robotics expands to India and takes over TechnoYantra to grow in Asia

The company offers semiconductor building blocks for robots and consulting services specialized in the Robot Operating System (ROS). Will grow its business in the semiconductors and autonomous mobility fields through hardware acceleration.

Nov 3, 2022

ROSCon

An open architecture for Hardware Acceleration in robotics and ROS 2 - ROSCon 2022

In this ROSCon 2022 talk, Víctor presented the architectural pillars and conventions required to introduce hardware acceleration in ROS 2 in a scalable and technology-agnostic manner.

Oct 30, 2022

ROS2

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #31

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. ROS 2 HAWG #12 meeting, Google announces new open-source OS for RISC-V chips, How digital twin technology can bridge America’s chip manufacturing gap, XPENG prepares its own robotaxi fleet, flying car, and robot

Oct 28, 2022

NVIDIA

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #30

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. The semiconductor industry is ‘near its limit,’ says Nvidia CEO, Intel and Google collaborate on computing ASIC for data centers, Chipmakers expand SiC production as demand for power electronics grows, Oracle Cloud adding Nvidia chips for AI

Oct 21, 2022

Robotics

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #29

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. 2022 Hardware acceleration report in robotics, ROS 2 HAWG #12, REP-2008 - ROS 2 hardware acceleration architecture and conventions, [REP-2014] Benchmarking performance in ROS 2, Acceleration Robotics adds Vijay Janapa Reddi to its Board of Advisors

Oct 17, 2022

Hardware Acceleration

2022 Hardware Acceleration Report in Robotics

The 2022 Hardware Acceleration Report in Robotics captures the state-of-the art of hardware acceleration in robotics and presents robotic architects with a resource to consider while designing their robot brains.

Oct 14, 2022

ROS

Acceleration Robotics adds Vijay Janapa Reddi to its Board of Advisors

Acceleration Robotics adds Vijay Janapa Reddi to its Board of Advisors, an expert in low-power, high-performance system-on-chip (SoC) architectures. They will cooperate on new compute architectures for robots and benchmarks.

Oct 10, 2022

HAWG

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #28

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. ROS2 HAWG #11, About Tesla's Optimus robot brain, a robotics hardware and software computer architecture perspective, Chipmakers cut output, investment – but government bucks never go out of style, Advances in computer vision propel transportation autonomy

Oct 7, 2022

Tesla

About Tesla's Optimus robot brain, a robotics hardware and software computer architecture perspective

This article studies Tesla's Optimus Bot Brain from a hardware and software computer architecture perspective. Shortly, they should consider reusing open source software and hardware resources.

Oct 5, 2022

AMD

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #27

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Acceleration Robotics announce and open sources ROBOTCORE®, Acceleration Robotics, AMD partner to design robotic compute architectures with ROS, Acceleration robotics partners with PlanV for a robotics-specific open source RISC-V Microcontroller

Sep 30, 2022

ROBOTCORE

Acceleration Robotics announce and open sources ROBOTCORE®, the first Robotic Processing Unit – specialized in ROS computations

Acceleration Robotics announce and open sources ROBOTCORE®, the first Robotic Processing Unit – specialized in ROS computations

Sep 29, 2022

PlanV

PRESS RELEASE: Acceleration Robotics and PlanV collaborating to create a robotics microcontroller unit (MCU) powered by RISC-V and ROS 2

The Robotics MCU. Acceleration Robotics and PlanV collaborating to create a robotics microcontroller unit (MCU) powered by RISC-V and ROS 2

Sep 23, 2022

ROS2

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #26

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. ROS2 HAWG #11 meeting, Acceleration Robotics collaborating with AMD to design next-generation robotic compute architectures with ROS, GM's Cruise develops its own chips for self-driving cars, What will be the impact of ROS 2 on commercialized robotics?

Sep 22, 2022

ROS

Acceleration Robotics collaborating with AMD to design next-generation robotic compute architectures with ROS

Acceleration Robotics collaborating with AMD to design next-generation robotic compute architectures with ROS 2

Sep 19, 2022

Intel

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #25

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Hard vs. Soft: Software may be eating the world, but hardware monetizes better, ROS 2 HAWG #11, Intel CEO warns of more tough times ahead, Nvidia claims 'record performance' for Hopper MLPerf debut, Fully integrated AI platform for industrial robotics

Sep 16, 2022

RISC-V

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #24

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. ROS Robotics Companies, SiFive RISC-V CPU cores to power NASA's next spaceflight computer, Intel Labs research helps robots learn new objects after deployment, FTC investigating Amazon’s acquisition of iRobot, What’s really behind the adoption of EFPGA?

Sep 9, 2022

AMD

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #23

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Robot sales hit record high for 3rd straight quarter, AMD smartNICs to meld ASICs, FPGAs, Arm cores, Nvidia will unveil next-gen GPU architecture in September, The first industrial robot: why it failed, Berkeley researchers announce DayDreamer algorithm

Sep 2, 2022

Amazon

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #22

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. How Europe aims to achieve strategic autonomy for semiconductors, Amazon to acquire iRobot, iRobot laying off 10% of staff, Google's open-source silicon project takes a big step forward, New hardware offers faster computation for AI

Aug 11, 2022

Robotics

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #21

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Adaptive computing makes robots more efficient, AMD and ECARX to collaborate on immersive digital cockpit in vehicle computing platform, Chipmakers warn that the chip boom is over, Clearpath simplifies ROS integration with its mobile robots

Aug 5, 2022

Harvard

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #20

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Acceleration Robotics and Harvard present collaborative research, Robotics hiring levels in the tech industry rose in June 2022, Senate advances bill to boost U.S. microchip production, Intel, other chipmakers boost lobbying spend to get CHIPS Act passed

Jul 29, 2022

Hardware Acceleration

Towards robot accelerators, democratizing hardware acceleration in robotics

Acceleration Robotics and Harvard University will present an Open Architecture for hardware accelerating robots that helps prototype “robot chips” and make robot computations faster with ROS 2.

Jul 25, 2022

ABB

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #19

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. ABB: 62% of US businesses looking to invest in robotics, Sony making sensors for autonomous vehicles, New CPU and GPU cores from Arm, Reverse-engineering insect brains to make robots, Imagination’s first real-time embedded RISC-V CPU

Jul 22, 2022

EFPGA

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #18

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. EFPGAs bring a 10X advantage in power and cost, Introducing QODA: the platform for hybrid quantum-classical computing, A new programming language for hardware accelerators, AMD expects GPUs to need 600W of power in 2025, Now Comes The Hard Part, AMD: Software

Jul 15, 2022

Siemens

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #17

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. ROS2 HAWG #10, Siemens and NVIDIA to enable industrial metaverse, Simplifying hardware acceleration for robots with ROS2, Speeding up the transition to autonomous driving requires reducing software complexity, Toward standard tests for automotive lidar systems

Jul 8, 2022

ROS 2

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #16

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. RTI improves ROS2 performance in software-defined cars, Intel is running rings around AMD and Arm at the edge, First working silicon of a DSP with embedded FPGA, AI powered by cloud and GPUs is used to track identity fraud

Jul 1, 2022

ROBOTCORE

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #15

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. The ROS 2 hardware acceleration stack and ROBOTCORE™, RISC-V shines at embedded world with new specs and processors, AMD bests Intel in cloud CPU performance study, Former AMD chip architect says it was wrong to can Arm project

Jun 24, 2022

ROBOTCORE

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #14

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Acceleration Robotics launch ROBOTCORE™ to speed-up ROS 2 robots, ROS 2 driver now available for ABB’s robot arms, Microchip pushes first RISC-V-based SoC FPGA to mass production, AMD’s AI strategy comes into view with Xilinx, GPU and software plans

Jun 20, 2022

ROBOTCORE

The ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Stack and ROBOTCORE®

The core of robots resides in their computing systems. We discuss the ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration stack to create custom compute architectures and its ROBOTCORE™ implementation

Jun 20, 2022

ROBOTCORE

Acceleration Robotics launch ROBOTCORE™ Framework to speed-up ROS 2 robots

The ROBOTCORE™ hardware acceleration framework helps roboticists build “robot chips” and make robot computations faster, more deterministic and power efficient through FPGAs and GPUs.

Jun 16, 2022

robot architecture

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #13

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Three architectures that could power the robotic age, Festo develops with Isaac Sim to drive Its industrial automation, Apple announces the M2, Arista's latest switches pack AMD Xilinx FPGAs, Semiconductor growth still seen at 11% in 2022

Jun 10, 2022

NVIDIA

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #12

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group #9, ROS developers choice awards, NVIDIA increases the power of Arm CPUs and Omniverse software, Qualcomm wants to buy Arm stake after NVIDIA deal collapse, Robot sales hit record high in first quarter of 2022

Jun 3, 2022

ROS2

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #11

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. ROS 2 Humble Hawksbill Release, NVIDIA robotics perception performance improvement for ROS 2, FogROS brings robotic cloud computing to ROS 2, Intel has promised to boost RISC-V adoption

May 27, 2022

ROS 2

ROS 2 Humble in NVIDIA Jetson Nano with Yocto

Yocto and ROS 2 Humble allow you to build custom Linux-based production-grade operating systems for robots. This article provides a walkthrough on how to build a Linux operating system with ROS 2 Humble for the NVIDIA Jetson Nano board.

May 23, 2022

ROS 2

ROS 2 Humble in NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier with Yocto

Yocto and ROS 2 Humble allow you to build custom Linux-based production-grade operating systems for robots. This article provides a walkthrough on how to build a Linux operating system with ROS 2 Humble for the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier board.

May 23, 2022

ROS 2

ROS 2 Humble in Microchip PolarFire® SoC FPGA Icicle Kit with Yocto

Yocto and ROS 2 Humble allow you to build custom Linux-based production-grade operating systems for robots. This article provides a walkthrough on how to build a Linux operating system with ROS 2 Humble for the Microchip PolarFire Icicle Kit board.

May 23, 2022

ROS 2

ROS 2 Humble in AMD ZCU104 with Yocto

Yocto and ROS 2 Humble allow you to build custom Linux-based production-grade operating systems for robots. This article provides a walkthrough on how to build a Linux operating system with ROS 2 Humble for the AMD ZCU104 board.

May 23, 2022

ROS 2

ROS 2 Humble in AMD ZCU102 with Yocto

Yocto and ROS 2 Humble allow you to build custom Linux-based production-grade operating systems for robots. This article provides a walkthrough on how to build a Linux operating system with ROS 2 Humble for the AMD ZCU102 board.

May 23, 2022

ROS 2

ROS 2 Humble in AMD KV260 with Yocto

Yocto and ROS 2 Humble allow you to build custom Linux-based production-grade operating systems for robots. This article provides a walkthrough on how to build a Linux operating system with ROS 2 Humble for the AMD KV260 board.

May 23, 2022

ROS 2

ROS 2 Humble in AMD KR260 with Yocto

Yocto and ROS 2 Humble allow you to build custom Linux-based production-grade operating systems for robots. This article provides a walkthrough on how to build a Linux operating system with ROS 2 Humble for the AMD KR260 board.

May 23, 2022

ROS2

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #10

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. ROS 2 Humble Hawksbill with Yocto and PetaLinux, AMD's robotics starter kit for the factory of the future, AMD Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit takes on NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier devkit, Streamlining ROS 2 development on an FPGA SoC

May 20, 2022

Yocto

ROS 2 Humble Hawksbill with Yocto and PetaLinux

Yocto allows you to build a customized Linux system for your use case. For robotics, in combination with ROS, Yocto helps you build a custom operating system for robots. We discuss how to get ROS 2 Humble into a Yocto or PetaLinux project and why this is relevant for hardware acceleration.

May 17, 2022

ROBOTCORE

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #9

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. RobotCore: an open architecture for hardware acceleration in ROS 2, RISC-V CEO seeks 'world domination', NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin, Qualcomm unveils RB6 platform and RB5 AMR reference design, Intel sticks with FPGAs and ASICs for next-gen IPUs

May 13, 2022

Open Robotics

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #8

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Open Robotics, iRobot and Clearpath work up to create adaptable complement to the ROS 2 ecosystem, AMD integrate FPGA AI engines into EPYC processors, updating the CUDA Linux GPG repository key, Arm debuts powerhouse Cortex-M processor

May 6, 2022

ROS 2

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #7

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group - meeting #8, ROS 2 Nodes for Perception, using NVIDIA Jetson to create real-time multi-camera pipelines, architectural flexibility of FPGAs with RISC-V

Apr 29, 2022

Perception

Hardware Accelerating ROS 2 Nodes for Perception

Robots moving faster require faster perception computations happening at the edge. We discuss how hardware acceleration empowers faster robots and benchmark accelerators showing how ROS 2 Nodes in AMD FPGAs are 500x faster than NVIDIA's GPUs.

Apr 26, 2022

ROS 2

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #6

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Architecture and conventions including cloud, Nav2 Stack integration with NVIDIA Isaac ROS GEMs, RISC-V adoption increases.

Apr 22, 2022

Hardware Acceleration

ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Architecture and Conventions - REP-2008, version 2

Architectural pillars and conventions required to introduce hardware acceleration in ROS 2 in a scalable and technology-agnostic manner.

Apr 18, 2022

AMD

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #5

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Global robot software market to reach 7527 million $ in 2025, NVIDIA medical-grade chip with hardware acceleration.

Apr 15, 2022

Hardware Acceleration

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #4

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Updates about Single-Chip Processors, NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin, iRobot Create 3 with ROS 2.

Apr 11, 2022

Robotic Processing Unit

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #3

Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Updates about hardware-accelerated ROS 2 Pipelines, Optimizers in SS-SAM and an interview with Rob Telson about a chip that mimicks the human brain.

Apr 4, 2022

ROS 2

Hardware accelerated ROS 2 pipelines and towards the Robotic Processing Unit (RPU)

We show how FPGAs compare to GPUs for ROS 2 graphs and propose the Robotic Processing Units (RPU), robot-specific processors that map ROS computational graphs efficiently to CPUs, FPGAs and GPUs to obtain best peformance.

Mar 29, 2022

News

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #2

Hardware acceleration in robotics news about the NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU, updates to CUDA-X Libraries and NVIDIA Isaac ROS GEMs for robot's perception, localization, and mapping.

Mar 28, 2022

ROS

Modern Robotics Compute Architectures

Robot behaviors are often built as computational graphs, with data flowing from sensors to compute technologies, all the way down to actuators and back. Roboticists must map these graph-like structures efficiently to computing platforms to obtain best performance.

Mar 27, 2022

News

Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #1

News on ROS 2 can be used for automotive applications that implement Apex.OS, Intel announces world’s fastest FPGAs with in-package HBM, how to save project costs and improve quality with digital twins and the Nvidia GTC 2022 conference

Mar 25, 2022

Hardware Acceleration

ROS 2 Simplifies Hardware Acceleration for Robots

The process of creating optimized, hardware specific, compute architectures can be time consuming and complex. The ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group (HAWG) is working to simplify hardware acceleration engineering tasks by creating acceleration kernels based on open standards.

Feb 1, 2022