NEWS SPATIAL INTELLIGENCE
SLAMcore announces new
software release
SOFTWARE LOOKS TO ASSIST DEVELOPERS OF ROBOTS AND CONSUMER
ELECTRONICS PRODUCTS. NEIL TYLER REPORTS
SLAMcore, a specialist in Spatial Intelligence
for autonomous location and mapping, has
released new software for developers of robots
and consumer electronics products.
The release expands SLAMcore’s location/
mapping capabilities (visual inertial SLAM) for
developers of robots/consumer electronics
products and helps developers overcome the
challenges associated with locating, mapping
and perceiving the physical environment around
robots and consumer products. SLAMcore
software uses stereo cameras, inertial (IMU)
and depth sensors to provide real-time location
and mapping information.
The company’s location and mapping (SLAM)
software works on cost-effective sensors and
processors and can save developers months in
development time.
The new release enables SLAMcore to
provide deeper integration between its Spatial
Intelligence software and the Robot Operating
System code (version 1.0).
Enhanced support for wheel odometry will
allow designers to feed additional motion
data to the SLAMcore software for even more
robust location estimates; while enabling
greater customisation, SLAMcore software can
now be tailored to perform in a wider range
of conditions. The ability to recon gure SLAM
algorithms to match the target environment
conditions for a robot signi cantly improves both
robustness and performance.
SLAMcore’s software works ‘out-of-the-box’
with Intel RealSense sensors and x86/Nvidia
Jetson compute enabling the faster roll out of
prototypes.
The software can be further optimised for
speci c use-cases, custom hardware and
additional sensors for use in a wide range of
commercial robotics and consumer electronics
products.
Commenting Owen Nicholson, founder and
CEO of SLAMcore, said, “Our role is to make
it as easy as possible for developers to add
robust, high performance SLAM capabilities to
their products as quickly and cost effectively
as possible. Working closely with ROS and its
codebase, as well as delivering support for
environment customisation, and supporting new
sensors like wheel odometry means that more
developers can bene t from integrating our
software into autonomous robots and consumer
electronics.”
Sequitur Labs
partners with
STMicroelectronics
A leader in IoT security for connected devices,
Sequitur Labs has announced it has joined the
STMicroelectronics Partner Program to make
Sequitur’s EmSPARK Security Suite available for
technical and business collaboration between
ST and third-party companies.
As a member of ST’s network, Sequitur will
be able to ensure that ST-powered smart edge
devices – and their sensitive data assets – are
fully protected.
Sequitur’s EmSPARK Security Suite will be
able to offer a security framework protecting
embedded rmware, keys, and security-critical
assets for both ST’s customers and thousands
of partners building products, solutions, and
ecosystems in elds like smart mobility, ef cient
power and energy management, IoT, and 5G.
Philip Att eld, Co-founder and CEO, Sequitur
Labs said, “By joining ST’s Partner Program,
we can help its network of developers rapidly
achieve the required level of security for their
connected devices, help design, build, and
sustain smarter and more secure products.”
EmSPARK enables advanced security
functions on the device itself, not through a
network connection, and through the device’s
entire lifecycle. Developers are able to easily
build applications using Sequitur’s EmSPARK
APIs and SDK without having to become experts
in cryptography and complex hardware security
technologies. It enables silicon hardware
security features, secure device provisioning,
and API access to essential trust services
such as secure storage, rmware updates, and
payload veri cation.
NXP launches fl exible IoT Cloud Platform
NXP Semiconductors has introduced the
EdgeLock 2GO IoT service platform delivering
easy, secure deployment and management
of IoT devices and services. The IoT security
platform is integrated with NXP’s Common
Criteria (CC) EAL 6+ certi ed EdgeLock SE050
secure element to protect IoT devices at the
edge and securely connect them to one or
multiple clouds and service providers.
“EdgeLock 2GO provides a full range of
choices and options that optimise the costs
around credential and device management,
while delivering advanced device security
for companies operating in the IoT,” said
Philippe Dubois, VP and GM of Secure Edge
Identi cation at NXP. “The platform provides
a highly exible approach to IoT security that
protects edge devices connecting to services
and maintains edge device security throughout
its entire lifecycle.”
The EdgeLock 2GO platform, combined with
NXP’s embedded EdgeLock SE050 secure
element for advanced key protection and
management, delivers end-to-end security–
from chip to cloud–based on a certi ed Trust
Anchor.
The EdgeLock SE050 makes it
easier to implement advanced security, and
the EdgeLock 2GO streamlines secure cloud
on-boarding and access to IoT devices from
different service providers. It also simpli es
application credential management with zerotouch
connectivity to public and private clouds,
edge computing platforms and infrastructure.
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