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"ROS 2"

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, ...

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
11 October 2023

AMD Kria™ KR260 Robotics Starter Kit and Ubuntu: An exploration into future robotics development

Robotics Ubuntu tech blog

The robotics field is constantly evolving, and with AMD and Canonical’s collaboration, the trajectory towards a more adaptable and efficient robotics framework is shaping up. Last year, AMD introduced the Kria™ KR260 Robotics Kit. The board embodies the spirit of seamless integration, ensuring developers face fewer barriers when developin ...

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 ...

Jeremie Deray
5 May 2023

ROS development on Linux, Windows and macOS

Robotics Ubuntu tech blog

Historically ROS has been developed on top of Ubuntu, relying on the distribution as a stable base providing tools (like GCC, CMake, Python to name a few) and libraries (such as Boost, Eigen, PCL) and following its release cycle (a distribution per year, an LTS every two years). This synergy has worked great for more ...

gbeuzeboc
27 April 2023

Optimise your ROS snap – Part 6

Robotics Ubuntu tech blog

Welcome to Part 6 of our “Optimise your ROS snap” blog series. Make sure to check Part 5. This sixth and final part will  summarise every optimisation that we did. We will provide a critique for every optimisation that we tried along this series of blogs. Finally, we have reached the last part of this ...

gbeuzeboc
24 April 2023

Optimise your ROS snap – Part 5

Robotics Ubuntu tech blog

Welcome to Part 5 of our “Optimise your ROS snap” blog series. Make sure to check Part 4. This fifth part is going to cover two different optimisations. The first one, covers the compression algorithm. The second one, is about implementing extremely risky but efficient file deletion. We are going to present two completely different ...

gbeuzeboc
21 April 2023

Optimise your ROS snap – Part 4

Robotics Ubuntu tech blog

Welcome to Part 4 of our “optimise your ROS snap” blog series. Make sure to check Part 3 before. This fourth part is going to explain what dynamic library caching is. We will present how to use it to optimise ROS snaps, along with the different points to be careful about. Finally, we will apply ...

gbeuzeboc
17 April 2023

Optimise your ROS snap – Part 3

Robotics Ubuntu tech blog

Welcome to Part 3 of our “optimise your ROS snap” blog series. Make sure to check Part 2. This third part is going to present safe optimisations consisting of removing duplicates and unnecessary files. We will present three different methods as well as their cumulative benefits for the performance of ROS snaps. When snaps are ...

gbeuzeboc
11 April 2023

Optimise your ROS snap – Part 2

Robotics Ubuntu tech blog

Welcome to Part 2 of the “optimise your ROS snap” blog series. Make sure to check Part 1 before reading this blog post. This second part is going to present initial optimisations already used in the Gazebo snap. We will present the benefit that they could bring to our ROS snaps as well as the ...

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