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Thanks to you, Génération Robots has grown since its beginning, and we had the pleasure to live exciting human and technological adventures. We are once again looking for that rare gem to add to our sales/webmarketing team. If you like robots, innovative tech, digital marketing, and that you consider yourself being a dynamic adventurer, come[…]
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In this first Metabot tutorial, we are going to show you how to customise your legged robot by adding a camera module which will deliver a video stream. That way, you will be able to see through your Metabot’s eyes! List of the necessary components for this project Here is the list of the different[…]
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Rethink Robotics just released a new update of Baxter SDK: Baxter Research Robot SDK 1.1.1. The company, which unveiled their new collaborative robot Sawyer in March, states that the Baxter SDK v1.1.1 is focused mainly on adding fixes to further stabilize the SDK with ROS Indigo. The Machine Sync I/O These changes were partly developed[…]
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Rethink Robotics doesn’t sit on its laurels. Less than 6 months after the Intera 3.1 release , Sawyer robot’s manufacturer is announcing that Intera v3.2 is available for Baxter robot . As you know Baxter collaborative robots are available in two versions: Baxter research, a prototype of the collaborative robot for research purposes, available at[…]
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Dexter industries, renowned for bringing BrickPi to the world, is organizing a « Pi/e Day contest » to celebrate Pi Day on March 14th. The contest started on this day and you can still send your submission until 26th April 2015. To participate, simply submit an entry related to Pi (Greek letter “π”) by 26th[…]
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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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If you’ve nothing else planned for the weekend of 3 April 2015 and are interested in humanoid robots, come and witness the birth of a Poppy robot! The principle of this ” Poppy, Naissance d’un robot ” (Poppy, Birth of a robot) event is quite simple: 6 French cities are to give birth to 6[…]
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Wondering about the benefits of getting students to work on robotic solutions? Prof. Vanderborght, from the University of Brussels, shares his experience. Génération Robots : “First of all, for all people who don’t know you, could you please tell us more about yourself and your department within university?” Bram Vanderborght : Together with prof Lefeber[…]
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Rethink Robotics yesterday unveiled its new collaborative robot, Sawyer, throughout the world Rethink Robotics , founded in 2008 by former director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Rodney Brooks , is a pioneer in the field of collaborative robots. In 2012, Rethink Robotics launched Baxter , a revolutionary robot designed for working[…]
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Explore the world of the small but powerful Intel Edison board! Already heard of the Intel Edison board? This new platform is a full-fledged computer no bigger than an SD card ! It therefore offers great potential for all your wearable creations (e-textiles) and your projects involving the Internet of Things (IoT)! Extremely powerful and[…]
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