Guides & tutorials

Learn how to use our robots with practical guides and tutorials. Tips for an easy handling and tricks to get the best out of them.

ROS packages for Cognex and Siemens PLC ModBus

Cognex In-Sight and Siemens S7 PLC Modbus Ros package and tutorial The modbus stack provided by Génération Robots team of engineers offers a wrapper from the modbus communication to standardized ROS messages. The modbus package is based on pymodbus and is also written in Python. This package was used in an industrial quality inspection project[…]
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Robotic simulation scenarios with Gazebo and ROS

Gazebo robotics simulator with ROS This tutorial is intended for roboticists that want to have realistic simulations of their robotic scenarios. Gazebo is a 3D simulator, while ROS serves as the interface for the robot. Combining both results in a powerful robot simulator. With Gazebo you are able to create a 3D scenario on your[…]
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Generation Robots helps Baxter robot to detect users, thanks to motorized Kinect head mount

In order to make Baxter robot even more collaborative, the GR Lab , Generation Robots’ engineering team, decided to fit upon it the most famous depth measuring sensor: The Kinect camera. There is nothing more natural for a collaborative robot than to directly interact with someone, if he instantly detects this person in its surroundings. Why embed[…]
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Tutorial: How to teach NAO to play soccer?

RoboCup 2014, which is to robots what FIFA World Cup is to humans, will start soon and there’s still time to get teach your programmable humanoid NAO to play soccer! Teaching NAO play soccer tutorial made by experts HumaRobotics engineering team and Génération Robots like to contribute to the NAO owners community so they decided to[…]
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