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Gabriel Aguiar Noury

Gabriel Aguiar Noury

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Gabriel is a Mechatronic Engineer, PhD in Robotics, and former entrepreneur. Today, he is the robotics product manager at Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. Gabriel worked on the development of innovation ecosystems for the assistive robotic market through the creation of industry‐wide platforms in the south-west of England. He aims to keep supporting innovators, helping them bring new robotic solutions to the market.

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
11 July 2022

Installing Foxglove Studio is now easier than ever

Robotics Article

Today, Foxglove announced the release of the Foxglove Studio snap. Foxglove Studio helps you experience the world as a robot does, providing a rich set of features to visualise data. By diversifying its distribution with a snap, Foxglove Studio is now available to millions of Linux users that can install this open-source tool with a ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
4 July 2022

The State of Robotics – May & June 2022

Robotics Article

In May, robotics felt the waves of the Hawksbill and Jellyfish. Last month brought us the first LTS for ROS 2, Humble Hawksbill. As part of the ROS community, we welcome this new release and congratulate everyone who made it possible. In this round-up, we will talk about ROS, drones, football and robots that eat ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
23 May 2022

Install ROS 2 Humble in Ubuntu 20.04 or 18.04 using LXD containers

Robotics Article

We welcome the new release of ROS 2 Humble which targets the recently released Ubuntu 22.04. If you want to install it now, please visit the ROS 2 Humble documentation. But if you want to install ROS 2 Humble and test compatibility, keeping your current Ubuntu (20.04, 18.04,…) environment stable until you know you are ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
20 May 2022

How to raise funding for your robotics venture | Chapter 2 – Akara

Robotics Article

Robotics ventures are different. They face different technical challenges in design, testing and deployment. This has an implication for everything, including funding. It’s not the same to raise funding for the next mobile app or IoT device, as for the next assistive robot. Investors and developers alike know about the risks: Hardware and ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
17 May 2022

Kria KR260 – a scalable robotics platform powered with Ubuntu

Internet of Things Article

Today, robotics developers have something to look forward to with the release of AMD Kria™ KR260 Robotics Starter Kit. Robotics is a challenging endeavour. By reducing the barriers to entry on embedding design, AMD aims to accelerate robotics innovations in every industry. The latest addition to the Kria portfolio of adaptive system-on-mo ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
6 April 2022

The State of Robotics – February & March 2022

Robotics Article

When you use open source software, you establish a connection with its maintainers, contributors, and users. You join a community, leveraging code and knowledge. You share bugs, solutions, recommendations, and challenges. Open source accelerates innovation while uniting us all under the same cause. Today, millions of open source contribut ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
28 March 2022

The journey from mir-kiosk to Ubuntu Frame

Internet of Things Article

We now deliver Ubuntu Frame, a display server for embedded devices that makes it easy for developers to deploy their graphics applications on Linux. Ubuntu Frame simplifies the development of embedded displays such as digital signage solutions, kiosks, IoT devices, robots, and more. In this blog, we will discuss the migration from mir-kio ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
28 February 2022

Mir 2.7 brings idle timeout and OSK support for Qt applications

Internet of Things Article

We are glad to announce the release of Mir 2.7 — our open source and secure display server for building Wayland-based shells. Mir provides a set of libraries and a Wayland compositor with integrated window management. This new release brings to you an idle timeout and on-screen keyboard (OSK) support for Qt applications. This blog ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
25 February 2022

Developing GUIs for IoT is easier with Ubuntu Frame on-screen keyboard

Internet of Things Article

Isn’t it nice when things just work? When you don’t have to worry about every single detail but only about what creates value? Imagine that you are building a digital kiosk using a touch screen. To log in, users need to input their credentials. Do you want to spend time integrating an on-screen keyboard or ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
12 February 2022

The State of Robotics – January 2022

Robotics Article

What a way of starting the year! Setting milestones, helping those in need, and daring to dream. January 2022 starts with one of the biggest technological conferences — CES. So, in this piece, you will find a breakdown of three robots in our usual style. But there’s more… we also bring a story to inspire ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
13 January 2022

The State of Robotics – December 2021

Robotics Article

I will be honest, I thought that December was going to be a slow month for the robotics news. With all the holidays, I was not expecting a month with exciting announcements or events. And when I was ready to put videos of robots dancing to Christmas carols, with Christmas hats and Christmas lights, I ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
17 December 2021

Robotics and Ubuntu rewind 2021

Robotics Article

A year packed with news and events. A year where great competitions came to an end. A year that made us dream with new robots. 2021 inspired us to reach new heights and pursue new breakthroughs. As we power millions of robotics developers with Ubuntu and our robotics open source tools, we present a recap ...