Focus on One Area: Robotics is broad. You could focus on programming first, then move to electronics, or vice versa. Trying ...

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

On a recent trip to the Bay Area, I took a few hours to pay a visit to Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (BAIR). Professor Ken Goldberg walked me around the lab and introduced me to a ...

Reinforcement learning is a subset of machine learning where the machine is scored on their performance (“evaluation function”). Over the course of a training session, behavior that improved final ...

ROS 2.0 basics. Why ROS 2.0 is important. Features and enhancements achieved with ROS 2.0. Open Robotics released the first ROS (Robot Operating System) in 2007—it was designed to provide a set of ...

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 ...

I recently got a PR blast with a headline that caught my eye: "Big prospects for tiny Linux autopilot." The blast was from a company called Erle Robotics, which makes inexpensive components for DIY ...