Topic
Robotics
Machines, industrial automation, and software that moves in the world.
News · · 1 min
OMRON agrees to buy rugged-computer maker OnLogic
OMRON and OnLogic said on October 13, 2026 that they have a definitive agreement for OMRON to acquire all of OnLogic.
News · · 1 min
Stryker takes a $400 million stake in surgical-robot maker CMR
Stryker and CMR Surgical announced a strategic alliance on October 12, 2026.
Tutorial · · 7 min
A ROS 2 Nav2 robot that follows voice commands in Gazebo
Talk to a TurtleBot3 in Gazebo. Utterances are cut with energy VAD, parsed by a rule grammar with a local LLM fallback, checked against named places and safety limits, and sent to Nav2 as NavigateToPose goals.
Tutorial · · 7 min
An offline voice assistant on a Raspberry Pi or Jetson
Run voice activity detection, speech to text, a local language model, and text to speech on the device. Start with the fake backends, then point the same CLI at faster-whisper, llama.cpp or Ollama, and Piper.