PickNik Robotics
Canvas Category Software : Operational Technology : Industrial Robot
PickNik combines world-class robotics expertise and state of the art robotics software platforms to save you time and money. We offer flexible research, development, and support to ensure your project’s success. Unstructured Robotics uses advanced sensing, 3D perception, automatic motion generation, and decision-making capabilities to adapt to the changing conditions and obstacles in their surroundings.
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PickNik Robotics’s Movelt Pro 6 Platform Brings Flexibility to Robotics
PickNik Robotics (PR) unveiled its MoveIt Pro Release 6, the latest version of its flexible, open development platform for robotic applications spanning multiple industries. The hardware-agnostic, AI-driven system now has a true-to-life simulation engine for digital twins or virtual representations of physical assets and processes.
The Digital Twin technology employed by the Movlet Pro platform employs robot runtime algorithms in a true-to-life physics simulator. Users benefit from many reference applications, including bin-picking, welding/cutting, door opening (for facility access), preassembly and assembly, mobile manipulation, and more. Customers can also integrate the Movelt Pro Platform into fleet management platforms to provide a holistic view of operations.
Real-Time Programming: Priority Inversion
Many robotics applications have real-time requirements, which means that they must be able to execute sections of code within a strict deadline. A control loop is one such example - failure to complete the control loop in time may cause controller instability or trigger protective stops! For ROS applications, ros2_control is a framework that can be used for real-time control of robots using ROS 2. Whether writing a real-time application with ros2_control, or your own custom real-time application, real-time code requires a specific set of concerns around ensuring latency is controlled and deadlines are met.
In this blog post, we’re going to discuss priority inversion, which is a potential source of unbounded latency that needs to be avoided in your real-time code. Priority inversion is very much a concern for robotics: a famous example is that priority inversion caused a failure on the Mars Pathfinder!
ROS 2 and VSCode
This document provides a detailed guide for using Visual Studio Code (VSCode) to build and execute ROS 2 projects efficiently with C++ and Python. It covers a range of topics, including initializing VSCode, remote development over SSH, development using Docker, sourcing ROS dependencies, and building with Colcon. The document also delves into specific techniques for working in C++ and Python within the ROS 2 environment, offering valuable insights and tips to enhance the development process.
PickNik Robotics raises $2M pre-seed round
PickNik Robotics Inc., a Boulder-based developer of a robotic-arm technology platform, recently completed a $2 million pre-seed investment campaign led by Stellar Ventures and Cypress Growth Capital.
The company’s MoveIt Studio is a robotic manipulator interface software that enables human operators to do more complex tasks. The platform can operate in a broad range of unstructured and high-latency environments such as urban areas, inside buildings, microgravity, and subsea. Applications range from bomb disposal to the sorting of objects in space.