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# Blog posts tagged "ROS Kinetic"

#### [The State of Robotics – April 2021](https://canonical.com/blog/the-state-of-robotics-april-2021)

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

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Robotics

#### [ROS Kinetic and Ubuntu 16.04 EOL: how to mitigate the impact](https://canonical.com/blog/ros-kinetic-and-ubuntu-16-04-eol-how-to-mitigate-the-impact)

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

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Robotics