Robots are rapidly moving beyond pre-programmed automation into a new era of adaptive, learning-driven autonomy. At the ...

Willow Garage sets its open-source software free to attract software developers and help make robots commonplace, but detractors say giving the software away is bad for business. Martin LaMonica is a ...

Chinese robotics player LimX Dynamics has unveiled LimX COSA, an operating system designed for ...

Can we get more out of collaborative robots? That's the question that drove a new universal AI operating system two years in the making designed to make existing robots smarter and self-learning.

The robots are getting smarter. Two years after releasing iRobot Genius Home Intelligence, an AI-powered platform for its robot vacuums and mops, iRobot has announced its new software platform: iRobot ...

LimX COSA powers the Oli humanoid with a three-layer stack that blends cognition and whole-body control, enabling agents to ...

For 10 years now, the Robot Operating System (ROS) has been used to write robot software. It is a system that is frequently used by students in the Master of Science in Robotics program at ...

A Chinese robotics firm has demonstrated what it calls a major step toward the ...

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If you are like us, you probably just spin up your own code for a lot of simple projects. But that’s wasteful if you are trying to do anything serious. Take a robot, for example. Are you using ROS ...

Shadow Robot Company has joined the ranks of Willow Garage, iRobot, and many other robot developers which have some of their hardware running the Robot Operating System (ROS). According to the ROS ...

The green Android mascot is now a walking robot and a recursive one at that–it is powered by the Android operating system. Two Japanese companies, RT Corporation and Brilliant Service, created a ...