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Aurora and Its Self Driving Trucks Explained Simply
Aurora Innovation is a Pittsburgh-based self-driving technology company that builds the Aurora Driver, a hardware and software system that lets heavy trucks haul freight without a human at the wheel. In 2025 it became the first company to run commercial driverless Class 8 trucks on a US public highway, starting on Interstate 45 between Dallas…
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What ROS 2 is and why more robots are moving to it
ROS 2 is a free, open-source framework for building robot software. It provides the messaging layer, tools and libraries that let separate programs share sensor data and commands across one robot or a whole fleet. It replaced ROS 1, which reached end of life in May 2025, and it is now the default starting point…
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Anika Sorensen
Anika covers robot software and autonomy: ROS 2, embedded systems and the navigation stacks behind self-driving machines. She explains how the pieces fit together before getting into the code.
