ROS is making headway into industrial robotics in a big way.
Toyota’s new human assistance robot runs ROS.
ROS is making headway into industrial robotics in a big way.
Toyota’s new human assistance robot runs ROS.
How Rethink Robotics Built Its New Baxter Robot Worker
ROS is everywhere these days…
Arstechnica has an interesting article examining the effect of unpatched vulnerabilities in industrial control systems.
Specific mention is made of an exploit allowing remote code execution on robots using some old ABB software.
According to an advisory (PDF) issued last week by the US Cyber Emergency Response Team, the flaw in ABB WebWare Server won’t be fixed even though it provides the means to remotely execute malicious code on computers that run the application.
Link.
This is a fascinating Google Tech Talk about writing mission critical software for spacecraft.
A really interesting look into something that most of us aren’t often exposed to.
Amazon has just bought Kiva Systems for $775M. Why?
Probably because of this:
