Robot Operating System (ROS) Melodic Supported By AWS RoboMaker

AWS RoboMaker is a service that is easy to develop, test, and deploy intelligent robotics applications at scale. RoboMaker increase the very extensively utilized open-source robotics software framework, Robot Operating System (ROS), with connectivity to cloud services. This covers AWS machine learning services, monitoring services, and analytics services which allow a robot to stream data, navigate, communicate, comprehend, and learn. AWS RoboMaker offers a robotics development environment for application development, a robotics simulation service to accelerate application testing, and a robotics fleet management service for remote application deployment, update, and management. Now AWS RoboMaker introduces the assistance for ROS-Melodic Morenia, that is current long term support (LTS) release for ROS. Now customers can create robotics applications with ROS-Melodic with AWS RoboMaker besides the current ROS-Kinetic distribution. Customers can select the ROS version they would like to be pre-installed and configured in RoboMaker’s integrated development environment to start coding immediately. ROS Melodic is compatible with the Gazebo 9 simulation engine and with the Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) operating system. AWS RoboMaker offers cloud service extensions as open source ROS packages, to help you to create functions on your robot by using features of cloud APIs. To get more information, refer RoboMaker or execute a test simulation job in the RoboMaker console.