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Robot Operating System (ROS)

ROS drivers are the latest addition to its H-811 high performance hexapod 6-axis miniature robot, allowing fast, seamless integration into a ROS environment, with comfortable control using their well-known mechanisms. With an included URDF model in the driver package, the H-811.i2 hexapod can also be simulated and visualized.

December 10, 2020

The Robot Operating System (ROS) by ROS.org is a flexible framework for robotics software development. PI’s release of ROS drivers is the company’s latest addition to its H-811 high performance hexapod 6-axis miniature robot, allowing fast, seamless integration into a ROS environment, with comfortable control using their well-known mechanisms. With an included URDF model in the driver package, the H-811.i2 hexapod can also be simulated and visualized. To download the ROS hexapod robot driver package, click here ».

What Industries Benefit from 6-Axis Robots

From first-ever astronomical discoveries and precise production line optics and photonics automation to bio-medical microsurgery research and perfecting cellphone image quality, PI’s multi-axis hexapods perform 6D movements in a compact space based on parallel kinematics, ensuring accuracy for all degrees of freedom.

Glossary terms in this article

  • degrees of freedom
    Number of axes along which a robot, and thus the object it is holding, can be manipulated. Most robots are capable of maneuvering along the three basic Cartesian axes (X, Y, Z). Mo…
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