The University of Zurich's Robotics and Perception Group are pushing the limits of agile, autonomous drone flight. Achieving 108km/hr with acceleration up to 12g 🚀🤯 they are beating world champion drone racers.

Read the thread to find out how.

Simulating optical sensors such as cameras is a hard problem. A camera is really 1000s of smaller sensors each measuring a superposition of 1000000s of signals (ie. light particles/waves).

Fortunately, there's great open-source projects solving this problem!

"Racing a flying car? Take my money. Show me where I sign my life away." - every engineer, ever.

Jetson are making it as cool as it sounds with the Jetson One!

Need drivers for your Velodyne Lidars?

There are great options in Rust, Python, C++ and even TypeScript! Plus of course ROS!

Want a Python tool to prototype robot behaviors in 2D?

PyRoboSim is an awesome open-source tool developed by @roboticseabass.com to do just this! It also has a sister tool called PyRoboPlan for manipulator motion planning designed for education purposes.

Mind blowing GNSS-free navigation performance demonstration by Q-CTRL using their Ironstone Opal GPS-free quantum navigation system. Their system uses "quantum sensors" to sense Earth's magnetic and gravitational fields and compare the measurements against their field maps.

My new blogpost is about jumping into the robotic simulation investigation rabbit hole to choose the next framework to focus. But I was able to make a useful list! knmcguire.github.io/blog/2025/04... #robotics #simulation

MoveIt by PickNik Robotics is an open-source framework for robotic motion planning, primarily focused on robotic arms. PickNik has been gathering huge momentum in the past couple of years and there's no surprises there given how powerful MoveIt and their wider ecosystem is.

We've had some Julia packages added to Hub Machina! It turns out there are several options for handling rotations in Julia 👉

@openrobotics.bsky.social's Robot Operating System (ROS) was added on Hub Machina yesterday! The legendary operating system powering so many machines around the world.

hubmachina.com/pages/ros-ro...

Yesterday we saw @openmv.io's N6 had been added to Hub Machina. So it is no surprise to see that MicroPython has also been added! MicroPython is a compact implementation of Python3, written in C, optimized to operate on microcontrollers. Give it some love and upvotes! hubmachina.com/pages/microp...

The latest addition on Hub Machina is the @openmv.io's N6 which was only recently released. It's a powerful camera and processor in a small package capable of running the YOLO computer vision algorithm at 30 frames per second 🏎️

Check it out hubmachina.com/pages/openmv...!

Autoware Foundation has built an open source autonomous driving stack. Sensing > Perception > Localization > Planning > Control > Vehicle Interfaces all in one place!

Check it out hubmachina.com/pages/autoware!

One of the strengths of Rust 🦀 as a programming language for machines is the depth of ready-to-go libraries (crates). Today we're showcasing one of the foundations for any robotics project in the num-quaternion crate by Ralph Tandetzky!

Check it out at hubmachina.com/pages/num-qu...!

We've had our first software component added today! Istvan Fodor's R2A is a Rust Programming Language crate that provides a ROS 2 to Apache Arrow function.

Give it an upvote at hubmachina.com/pages/r2a!

Today we had the first navigation components added to Hub Machina. Advanced Navigation's Certus Mini N! This is a small but powerful Inertial Navigation System blending IMU, GNSS, pressure and magnetometer data into a full state navigation solution.

Check it out and give it the upvotes it deserves!

Kite Aero's Kite has landed at Hub Machina! 🪁

This cool UAS is used for aerial logistics (ie. small package delivery) with a range of up to 175km and payload capacity of up to 3kg.

Learn more about Kite: hubmachina.com/pages/kite

Hub Machina is officially live! If you are an engineer building autonomous machines then this is the place for you 🚗 🛥️ 🛩️ 🚁 🤖

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