Willow Garage sets its open-source software free to attract software developers and help make robots commonplace, but detractors say giving the software away is bad for business. Martin LaMonica is a ...

Can we get more out of collaborative robots? That's the question that drove a new universal AI operating system two years in the making designed to make existing robots smarter and self-learning.

Robots are rapidly moving beyond pre-programmed automation into a new era of adaptive, learning-driven autonomy. At the center of this transformation is the rise of AI-powered Robot Operating Systems ...

iRobot OS 7.0 brings first-of-its-kind Dirt Detective intelligence to company's newest and most advanced robots With SmartScrub and Clean Base® Auto-Fill Dock, the new Roomba Combo® j9+ robot vacuum ...

iRobot Corp. has introduced two new models that solve pitfalls faced by competing robots – the flagship Roomba Combo j9+ robot vacuum and mop and Roomba j9+ robot vacuum. These two models look to ...

The robots are getting smarter. Two years after releasing iRobot Genius Home Intelligence, an AI-powered platform for its robot vacuums and mops, iRobot has announced its new software platform: iRobot ...

For more than two decades, people in the robotics industry had been trying to come up with a set of common tools that others could use on any robot they were designing or building. Tools that could ...

Don’t program robots — train them. That’s the stated goal of Brain Corporation, whose operating system is designed to allow robots to learn how to dump trash or open doors via hands-on training, not ...

The new Jetson Orin Nano system-on-module is at the heart of NVIDIA’s Nova Orin. Version 2 of the Robot Operating System, which simplifies hardware acceleration, builds on the popularity and ...