News

India is the world’s next tech manufacturing hub

Source: The Information, April 6, 2023 [1]
India is reaping the benefits of tech companies shifting manufacturing away from China due to its aging population and uncertain geopolitical position.

EU chips act likely to get green light on April 18 -sources

Source: Reuters, April 5, 2023 [2]
The European Union's plan to boost its semiconductor industry is likely to get the green light from EU countries and lawmakers on April 18.

Non-industrial robots market expected to grow 19 percent a year

Source: Robotics & Automation News, April 9, 2023 [3]
The market for non-industrial robots is expected to reach $83.4 billion in 2023 and $465.5 billion by the end of 2033, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 18.8 percent, according to a report by Fact.MR.

Researchers find robots create jobs in long term

Source: Robotics Business Review, April 6, 2023 [4]
Industrial robots, particularly those in the automotive industry, complement human workers rather than replace them.

ROS, wherever you are

Source: Artivis, April 6, 2023 [5]
In this blog post, we will see how one can set up a ROS development environment whatever one’s operating system is. Indeed, using Multipass, an Ubuntu virtual machines’ manager, it has never been easier to quickly spawn a full-fledged VM rocking Ubuntu. Not only that, we made it so that spawning a VM with ROS pre-installed only takes a single command line. Shall we?

Robotics summit: How to use simulation for developing robots

Source: The Robot Report, April 5, 2023 [6]
Advanced simulation tools can help engineers speed up the design, development, and testing of intelligent robotic systems.

The unfolding of a new era in robotics

Source: Hackster.io, April 7, 2023 [7]
Origami robots are highly versatile and can be used for a variety of tasks, making them ideal for hard-to-reach environments.

How to pick a problem

Source: General Robots, March 11, 2023 [8]
Alright, you’re going to make a general purpose robot. Eventually it’s going to do all kinds of things. But right now it doesn’t do anything. What do you try first? In this post we’ll talk about the various pitfalls to avoid when choosing your first tasks.

RISC-V driving new verification concepts

Source: Semiconductor Engineering, April 11, 2023 [9]
Doing what has been done in the past only gets you so far, but RISC-V is causing some aspects of verification to be fundamentally rethought.

Papers

A novel distributed architecture for unmanned aircraft systems based on Robot Operating System 2

Source: IET Cyber‐Systems and Robotics, February 2, 2023 [10]
A novel distributed control architecture for UASs based on ROS 2 middleware is proposed, incorporating security and safety features, localisation algorithms, and a flexible path planner. Experimental results show its effectiveness in terms of reliability, scalability, and flexibility.

HitGNN: high-throughput GNN training framework on CPU+multi-FPGA heterogeneous platform

Source: arXiv, March 2, 2023 [11]
HitGNN is a framework that enables users to easily map GNN training workloads onto a CPU+Multi-FPGA platform for acceleration. It consists of high-level APIs, a software generator, and an accelerator generator. It achieves up to 27.21 bandwidth efficiency and 4.26 speedup using much less compute power and memory bandwidth than GPUs, and is scalable to 16 FPGAs on a CPU+Multi-FPGA platform.

Previous Hardware Acceleration in Robotics Newsletters

  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #54 - The age of acceleration engines, Keys to using ROS 2 & other frameworks for medical robots, Autonomous mobile robots market expected to expand at 22 percent a year and more
  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #53 - Robotekin, the Basque robotics and automation association, Automotive industry sets record by employing 1M robots and more
  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #52 - Nvidia works with TSMC, ASML and Synopsis on software to speed up chipmaking, Keys to developing autonomous vehicle software and more
  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #51 - PRESS RELEASE: Peer Robotics partners with Acceleration Robotics to bring hardware acceleration to their collaborative AMR, ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group #16 and more
  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #50 - How the EU chips act could build "Innovation capacity" in Europe, How Efinix is conquering the hurdle of hardware acceleration for devices at the edge and more
  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #49 - ROS 2 HAWG - meeting #15, 600 for-profit companies using ROS and ROS 2, Acceleration Robotics is growing, January 2023 robotics investments total US $521 million and more
  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #48 - RobotPerf, benchmarking interest for robots grows, Acceleration Robotics announces the 1st meeting of the Architectures and Processors Working Group (GTAP) of the AESEMI and more
  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #47 - ROS 2 HAWG #15, 2022 ROS 2 metrics report, Robot sales reach a new high in 2022, When will the mobile robot market consolidate? and more
  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #46 - China overtakes USA in robot density, 3 ways semiconductors enhance automation and efficiency, 10 industries China is focusing on automating and more
  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #45 - ROS 2 HAWG - meeting #14, What slowdown? - December 2022 robotics investments reaches $1.14B and more

Past ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group meetings

  1. Shaoshan, L. (2023, April 6). India is the world’s next tech manufacturing hub. The Information. https://www.theinformation.com/articles/india-is-the-worlds-next-tech-manufacturing-hub ↩︎

  2. Chee, F. Y. (2023, April 5). Exclusive: EU chips act likely to get green light on April 18 -sources. Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-countries-lawmakers-likely-clinch-deal-chips-act-april-18-sources-2023-04-05/ ↩︎

  3. Allinson, M. (2023, April 9). Non-industrial robots market expected to grow 19 percent a year. Robotics & Automation News. https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2023/04/09/non-industrial-robots-market-expected-to-grow-19-percent-a-year/66585/ ↩︎

  4. Wessling, B. (2023, April 6). Researchers find robots create jobs in long term. Robotics Business Review. https://www.roboticsbusinessreview.com/news/researchers-find-robots-create-jobs-in-long-term/?spMailingID=87432&puid=2502618&E=2502618&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=87432 ↩︎

  5. Deray, J. (2023, April 6). ROS, wherever you are. Home to artivis. https://artivis.github.io/post/2023/multipass_ros_blueprint/ ↩︎

  6. Wessling, B. (2023, April 5). Robotics summit: How to use simulation for developing robots. The Robot Report. https://www.therobotreport.com/robotics-summit-how-to-use-simulation-for-developing-robots/?spMailingID=87315&puid=2502618&E=2502618&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=87315 ↩︎

  7. Bild, N. (2023, April 7). The unfolding of a new era in robotics. Hackster.io. https://www.hackster.io/news/the-unfolding-of-a-new-era-in-robotics-ee679d588a2b ↩︎

  8. Holson, B. (2023, March 11). How to pick a problem. General Robots | Benjie Holson | Substack. https://generalrobots.substack.com/p/how-to-pick-a-problem ↩︎

  9. Bailey, B. (2023, April 11). RISC-V driving new verification concepts. Semiconductor Engineering. https://semiengineering.com/risc-v-driving-new-verification-concepts/ ↩︎

  10. Bianchi, L., Carnevale, D., Del Frate, F., Masocco, R., Mattogno, S., Romanelli, F., & Tenaglia, A. (2023, February 2). A novel distributed architecture for unmanned aircraft systems based on Robot Operating System 2. IET Cyber‐Systems and Robotics. https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1049/csy2.12083 ↩︎

  11. Chien, L. Y., Bingyi, Z., & Prasanna, V. (2023, March 2). HitGNN: high-throughput GNN training framework on CPU+multi-FPGA heterogeneous platform. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.01568.pdf ↩︎