Freedom Robotics Blog

Announcing Robotics Resource Monitoring

Jul 30, 2020 | 3 min read

TLDR: We built a tool - The Freedom Resource Monitor - to log and monitor system resources on any robot (GPU, network connectivity, topic data,...

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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...

Robotics

Partner Webinar: MiR and Freedom Robotics Present Teleoperation for AMRs

Jun 30, 2020 | 1 min read

Industrial robotics is one of the fastest growing verticals in the space and an area that our team is very familiar with. It goes without saying that...

Robotics

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...

Robotics

Deploying AgRobots In Time For Harvest with Freedom Pilot

Jun 17, 2020 | 3 min read

Labor shortages and increasing concerns around sustainability have led to deployment of a variety of robots in the field with more to come:...

Robotics

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,...

Robotics

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...