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"ROS"

Florencia Cabral Berenfus
17 December 2025

Extending ROS Noetic Support with ESM-Enabled Content Snaps

Robotics Ubuntu tech blog

Canonical has now extended its ESM (Expanded Security Maintenance) for ROS coverage to ROS Noetic content-sharing snaps. With ESM for ROS now available in both deb and snap formats, Ubuntu continues to be the trusted foundation for secure, long-term robotics innovation. ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
22 October 2025

Discover your fully open source robotics observability at ROSCon 2025

Robotics Ubuntu tech blog

Another year, another ROSCon! This year we’re heading to Singapore, and Canonical is once again thrilled to sponsor this important community event. Just like last year in Odense, Denmark, we’re looking forward to the talks and workshops, which always inspire us and teach us new things about robotics. We’re excited to reconnect with our So ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
20 August 2025

Canonical is now a platinum member in the Open Source Robotics Alliance

Robotics Ubuntu tech blog

Ubuntu is the home of ROS. The very first ROS distribution, Box Turtle, launched on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, Hardy Heron, and since then, Ubuntu and ROS have grown hand in hand. With every Ubuntu LTS release, a new ROS distribution follows, an intentional alignment that ensures ROS works out of the box on Ubuntu Desktop, ...

Florencia Cabral Berenfus
8 August 2025

ROS Noetic is EOL – take action to maintain fleet security

Robotics Ubuntu tech blog

As of May 2025, the Robot Operating System (ROS) Noetic Ninjemys officially reached its end of life (EOL). First released in 2020 as the final ROS (1) distribution, ROS Noetic has been the default choice for thousands of developers building on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. For developers and businesses running mission-critical systems on ROS Noetic, ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
9 October 2024

Deploying scalable AI and real-time robots at ROSCon 24

Robotics Ubuntu tech blog

Another year, another ROSCon! This year we’re setting off to Odense, Denmark. At Canonical, we are excited to once again sponsor this event for a community that means so much to us. Just like last year, we are eager for the talks and workshops that, as always, teach us new things and inspire us to ...

gbeuzeboc
25 September 2024

TurtleBot3 OpenCR firmware update from a snap

IoT Ubuntu tech blog

The TurtleBot3 robot is a standard platform robot in the ROS community, and it’s a reference that Canonical knows well, since we’ve used it in our tutorials. As a matter of fact, we use it to demonstrate some of our work, such as distributing a ROS stack through snaps. This robot embeds two boards, a ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
26 April 2024

ESM for ROS: 10 things you need to know

Robotics Ubuntu tech blog

This article provides a concise, 10-point guide designed to help you determine if ESM (Expanded Security Maintenance) is the right choice for your robotics project.  With the End of Life of ROS Noetic, we have received many questions from people in the robotics community who are interested in learning about Expanded Security Maintenance f ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
18 October 2023

Canonical brings Ubuntu and ROS to NVIDIA Jetson Orin, providing stability to robotics and AI Development

Robotics Ubuntu tech blog

The intersection of software and hardware is crucial in driving advancements in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI). Canonical and NVIDIA are collaborating to drive this synergy. This collaboration promises to enrich users of NVIDIA Jetson Orin hardware with the versatility and stability of Ubuntu. In this blog, we’ll delve deeper i ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
17 October 2023

Discover the future of Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR) with Canonical and Husarion at ROSCon 2023

Robotics Ubuntu tech blog

At a time when Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR) keep rapidly reshaping industries like logistics and manufacturing, we’re thrilled to introduce you to our ROSCon 2023 Platform Partner; Husarion. Together, we are merging the world-class capabilities of Ubuntu Core with Husarion’s state-of-the-art robotics platforms. As we unveil our collabor ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
3 August 2023

Do more with Vulcanexus snaps; your all-in-one ROS 2 toolset

Robotics Ubuntu tech blog

eProsima’s advanced toolset for ROS 2 is now available in the Snap Store A surprise is awaiting all ROS developers in the Snap Store with the release of the Vulcanexus tool kit. They are one command away from getting eProsimas’ new contribution to the robotics community. From monitoring the performance of ROS 2 networks to ...

gbeuzeboc
15 June 2023

ROS architectures with snaps

Robotics Ubuntu tech blog

Choosing the right architecture can be hard, but we want to help. In this blog, we’ll look at different architectures and their pros and cons. We’ll also show you how to apply the chosen architecture to a mobile robot software stack with three essential apps. With this blogpost, we will see the different ROS architectures ...

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