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Blog posts tagged
"ROS Support"

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
26 April 2024

ESM for ROS: 10 things you need to know

Robotics Article

With the End of Life of ROS Noetic, we have received many questions from people in the robotics community who are interested in learning about Expanded Security Maintenance for ROS (ESM for ROS).  In brief, Expanded Security Maintenance lengthens the support period for ROS LTS (long-term support) releases to 15 years, when used on Ubuntu. ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
3 June 2021

ROS Kinetic migration and its challenges – A community perspective.

Robotics Article

ROS Kinetic has come to EOL. We have discussed the impact of EOL in the past, but with its final sync out on May 12th, ROS Kinetic is no longer supported. Together with Ubuntu Xenial, both distributions will no longer receive security updates or bug fixes.  ROS second LTS release became the largest rosdistro with ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
6 April 2021

What is Expanded Security Maintenance for ROS?

Robotics Article

Developing robots is not like building apps or IoT devices. Robots balance complex features such as scene awareness, social intelligence, physical intelligence, communication, dialogue, learning from interaction, memory, long-term autonomy, safe failure… the list goes on and on.  As a result, robotics startups can take years to get to a m ...