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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
18 June 2021

Mir 2.4, enhancing digital signage and smart screen development

Internet of Things Article

Another cycle brings another release of Mir, with new features and new innovative use cases. For those of you new to Mir, our flexible display server provides a set of libraries and Wayland compositor for building Wayland-based shells with integrated window management. It is widely used in different IoT applications, including digital sig ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
14 June 2021

The State of Robotics – May 2021

Robotics Article

May was another fantastic month for robotics developments. In a continuously growing field, where the opportunities are many and the challenges require innovative solutions, researchers keep leading the way. Here at Canonical, we understand the value of open knowledge and collaboration. So this monthly blog brings some great research, ava ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
3 June 2021

ROS Kinetic migration and its challenges – A community perspective.

Robotics Article

ROS Kinetic has come to EOL. We have discussed the impact of EOL in the past, but with its final sync out on May 12th, ROS Kinetic is no longer supported. Together with Ubuntu Xenial, both distributions will no longer receive security updates or bug fixes. ROS second LTS release became the largest rosdistro with ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
17 May 2021

The State of Robotics – April 2021

Robotics Article

Together we have reached the end. Two partners, two allies, two distributions that supported millions of innovators have reached their end-of-life (EOL). April will be remembered as the month where ROS Kinetic and Ubuntu Xenial reached EOL. ROS Kinetic is one of the most used, widely deployed and extensively contributed ROS distributions ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
26 April 2021

ROS ESM: 15 things you need to know

Robotics Article

With the announcement of Robot Operating System (ROS) Expanded Security Maintenance (ESM), we have received many questions from people in the robotics community who are interested in learning about this enterprise solution. This blog aims to answer some of the most common questions. For more background on this, please have a look at the R ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
9 April 2021

The State of Robotics – March 2021

Robotics Article

It’s never too late to learn. As any reinforcement learning agent, we get rewarded by the new knowledge that we acquire. Likewise, we learn by doing, by rolling up our sleeves and getting to work. (Do you want a hands-on book on Reinforcement Learning? Here is my personal favourite) March has shown us great examples ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
6 April 2021

What is ROS Extended Security Maintenance?

Robotics Article

Developing robots is not like building apps or IoT devices. Robots balance complex features such as scene awareness, social intelligence, physical intelligence, communication, dialogue, learning from interaction, memory, long-term autonomy, safe failure… the list goes on and on. As a result, robotics startups can take years to get to a m ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
18 March 2021

The State of Robotics – February 2021

Robotics Article

And that was February! A month where a rover showed what perseverance means and a small drone what ingenuity looks like. February will be remembered as the month where two robots landed on Mars, telling us all to “dare mighty things”. Perseverance and Ingenuity Do you want to know what Mars sounds like? Well, here ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
8 March 2021

ROS Kinetic and Ubuntu 16.04 EOL: how to mitigate the impact

Robotics Article

For more than ten years, the Robot Operating System (ROS) has been enabling innovators around the world to develop their robot platforms and applications. Through its collection of tools, libraries, and conventions, ROS simplifies the task of creating complex and robust robot behaviour. Ubuntu has been the primary platform for ROS from t ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
22 February 2021

Build smart displays with mir 2.3.2

Internet of Things Article

mir was designed to help systems on chips (SoCs) to reduce their development and maintenance investment in Linux graphics drivers. Today, mir works across the whole stack of devices, from desktop computers, tablets and phones, to IoT devices. You can find mir in industry GUI applications to smart mirrors, enabling developers to design inn ...

Gabriel Aguiar Noury
19 February 2021

The State of Robotics – January 2021

Robotics Article

A new start? 2020 came and went, and in the process, it left a mark in history and our lives that won’t be erased. Together, as a community, we all struggled, we all faced new challenges, we all united and did our best to help each other. We are grateful for the effort of our ...