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Canonical/Ubuntu: ROS 2, Pushing Rust Everywhere, and Old Gimmicks Rebranded as "Hey Hi"
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ROS Industrial ☛ ros2_canopen: Natively Integrating CANopen Devices into the ROS 2 Ecosystem
CANopen has long been one of the most widely used communication standards in industrial automation. Built on top of the CAN bus and standardised by CAN in Automation (CiA), it connects motor drives, I/O modules, sensors and other field devices across machines, robots and vehicles. The
ros2_canopenstack, maintained under the ROS-Industrial umbrella, brings this ecosystem natively into ROS 2. It lets developers describe a CAN bus, bring up a CANopen master, and talk to every device on the bus through standard ROS 2 nodes, services, topics andros2_controlinterfaces. -
Ubuntu ☛ Canonical becomes Gold Sponsor of Trifecta Tech Foundation
Canonical has supported the foundation’s work since 2025, co-sponsoring the development of projects like sudo-rs. The new €40,000/year contribution will help the foundation continue developing and maintaining memory-safe system utilities written in the Rust programming language.
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OMG Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu’s ‘Myna’ project lets you talk instead of type – what is it?
Ubuntu is working on speech-to-text Hey Hi (AI) transcription so you can talk to type. It's powered by project Myna. Here's how it'll work and why it's adding it.