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Canonical joins EdgeX Foundry to help unify IoT edge computing

by Sarah Dickinson on 24 April 2017

Fragmentation is the nature of the beast in the IoT space with a variety of non-interoperable protocols, devices and vendors which are the natural results of...

Internet of Things

ROS production: our prototype as a snap [3/5]

by Kyle Fazzari on 21 April 2017

This is the third blog post in this series about ROS production. In the previous post we came up with a simple ROS prototype. In this post we’ll package that...

Internet of Things

FTC and D-Link

by Guest on 19 April 2017

This is a guest post by Peter Kirwan, technology journalist. If you would like to contribute a post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com Anyone who...

Canonical announcements

Ubuntu 17.04 supports widest range of container capabilities

by Canonical on 13 April 2017

Ubuntu 17.04 released today, supporting Kubernetes, Docker, LXD and Snaps. This is the 26th release of Ubuntu, the world’s most widely deployed Linux OS and...

Internet of Things

ROS production: our prototype [2/5]

by Kyle Fazzari on 13 April 2017

This is the second blog post in this series about ROS production. In the previous post we discussed why Ubuntu Core was a good fit for production robotics. In...

Internet of Things

The smartest industry 4.0 crane

by Maarten Ectors on 10 April 2017

Lots of big name industrial players are launching IoT platforms and are hopeful that their big data analytics, open APIs, and other features will catapult...

Internet of Things

From ROS prototype to production on Ubuntu Core

by Kyle Fazzari on 6 April 2017

Please note that this blog post has outdated technical information that may no longer be correct. For latest updated documentation about robotics in Canonical...

Internet of Things

Making snap packages of photogrammetry software

by Guest on 29 March 2017

This is a guest post by Alberto Mardegan, Software Engineer at Canonical. If you would like to contribute a guest post, please contact...

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Battlestar solution

by Guest on 28 March 2017

This is a guest post by Peter Kirwan, technology journalist. If you would like to contribute a post, please contact ubuntu-devices@canonical.com Forecasts...

Internet of Things

Putting Ubuntu in embedded

by Thibaut Rouffineau on 27 March 2017

This year Canonical joined Embedded World 2017 for the first time with a booth. And the initial reaction from anyone visiting the booth was one of surprise...

Internet of Things

This elevator catches intruders, saves lives, generates money, …

by Maarten Ectors on 13 March 2017

The world is becoming software defined and most people don’t realise what this means until software apps and app stores invade their day to day objects like...