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Syncbotic Syncbot is a four-wheel autonomous mobile robot (AMR) platform for research and education that can be fitted with an NVIDIA Xavier NX or an Intel Apollo Lake/Tiger Lake-based controller running Ubuntu 20.04 operating system with ROS 2 framework, and comes with an motion control MCU board with an EtherCat master and running Zephyr OS.
The robot comes with four 400W TECO servo motors, can handle up to 80kg payloads for sensors and a robotic arm, features 12V and 24V power output for sensors, four USB 3.0 ports, and can also be equipped with an eight-camera kit with Intel RealSense and ToF cameras.
That’s about all the information we have about the SyncBot robot itself, but you may find a few more details on the company’s website. The educational robot was brought to my attention through AAEON RBX-I2000 robot controller announcement, which Syncbotic sells as the SBC-T800 series. The new controller is powered by an Intel Tiger Lake UP3 Core i7/i5/i3/Celeron processor and features hardware-based time synchronization to improve sensor fusion on two connectors, with latency slashed from 100 to 200 uS by software to just 20ns.
The RBX-I2000 robot controller also comes with 4-channel sync ports, each supporting two channels of 9600bps and 115200bps, which combined with the built-in Xsens MTi-670 9-axis IMU and the Movella Xsens RTK, enable centimeter-level positional data. It runs Windows 10 IoT Enterprise by default, but Linux is available upon request. More details may be found on the product page.
Besides being used in the SyncBot autonomous mobile robot for education and research, AAEON expects the RBX-I2000 to find its way into smart agriculture and mining applications. There’s no public pricing information for the robot or controller. But the latter should cost over one thousand dollars and a fully equipped robot well over $10,000 considering the NIRYO Ned robotic arm above goes for about 2,900 Euros alone.
Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011.
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It runs windows ? Why on earth would it need a desktop based os ?
“Windows 10 IoT Enterprise” is not a desktop-based OS, it’s for embedded and the internet of things. I think it’s what used to be called Windows Embedded and WinCE before that.
There are 2 Windows IOT Operating Systems – Enterprise and Core. Core is what I would have expected on this but it has enterprise installed by default which supports the whole Windows eco system. Maybe this is the right choice between windows flavours, but really I would expect Linux to be a test/dev environment, with bare metal used in production mode. As there are multiple cores, I would expect not to need a scheduler/kernel. Overview of Windows 10 IoT – Windows IoT | Microsoft Docs Major diff between core and Enterprise… “By contrast, Windows 10 IoT Enterprise is a full… Read more »
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