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Why I Sleep Better at Night thanks to Freedom Robotics
Mar 11, 2021 |
3 min read
Sleep is a tricky thing to get right. Sometimes I wake up with headaches and sore muscles, sometimes I wake up with a stuffy nose, sometimes with dry...
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Freedom Robotics Guide to Cell Routers for Robot Connectivity
Oct 23, 2020 |
5 min read
At Freedom Robotics we have worked with 100s of robotics customers that use LTE connectivity to deploy robotic applications. Depending on use case,...
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Should You Build with ROS?
Sep 10, 2020 |
2 min read
As technology rapidly increases in virtually every industry, the need to equip your business with tools and technology that drive your business...
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Deploying on Mars: A Mapping & Localization Tutorial
Sep 02, 2020 |
4 min read
This is the fourth in a series of blogs on the Open Source Mars Rover. Most concepts discussed here apply to other wheeled robots as well. You can...
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18 Ways to Stabilize Robotics Compute Resources
Aug 12, 2020 |
12 min read
TLDR: Below are multiple stories of how robots have failed and specific things to validate on your robotic system to minimize hidden failures due to...
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8 Common Mistakes When Connecting Your Robot With A Cellular Modem
Jul 20, 2020 |
8 min read
Connecting your robot to the internet can be tricky and there are a lot of mistakes you can make when implementing a connectivity solution. This list...
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Launching a Last-Mile Delivery Robot with Freedom Pilot in a Week
Jun 17, 2020 |
3 min read
HUD interface from Freedom Robotics Pilot interface. View camera feeds, GPS, lidar, key metrics in real time. It has always made sense to deploy...
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Quick and Clean: Deploy A Sanitizing Robot Without Full Autonomy
Jun 17, 2020 |
3 min read
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, several robotics companies have joined the battle against the virus. Some Robots are reporting for...
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Deploying on Mars: Rock solid Odometry for Wheeled Robots
Jun 11, 2020 |
14 min read
This is the third blog in the build series of my NASA-JPL Open Source Rover. It walks through setting up wheel odometry and what that means in ROS,...
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Deploying on Mars: How to Pick Sensors to Enable Navigation for Your Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR)
Jun 08, 2020 |
9 min read
This is the second blog in the build series of my NASA-JPL Open Source Rover. For part 1 please click here. It walks through hard-learned lessons of...
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How to Build Stable ROS Development and Test Environments with Docker
May 22, 2020 |
2 min read
We have been talking for a while now about logging data so you can view it in realtime, historically or use it to save data like images along with...
