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ROS on arm64 with Ubuntu Core

Previous Robot Operating System (ROS) releases only supported i386, amd64, and armhf. I even tried building ROS Indigo from source for arm64 about a year ago, but ran into dependency issues with a missing sbcl. Well, with surprisingly little fanfare, ROS Kinetic was released with support for arm64 in their prebuilt archive! I thought it might be time to take it for a spin with Ubuntu Core and its arm64 reference board, the DragonBoard 410c, and thought I’d take you along for the ride....

January 26, 2017 · 5 min · Kyle