Build Better Robots

Kauai Labs helps students, researchers and hobbyists Build Better Robots® with powerful, easy-to-use, low-cost: Robot Navigation Sensors Robot Controllers/Co-processors Robot Software

Robot Navigation Sensors

Kauai Labs Navigation Sensors combine modern sensor technologies with signal processing, sensor fusion and calibration. The result: precision, easy-to-use measurements of robot orientation, motion and physical surroundings enabling advanced navigation features. navX-MXP and navX-Micro have been used on thousands of robots in FIRST FRC, FIRST FTC and World Skills robotics competitions – including several recent …

Robot Software

Through efforts including the Robot Operating System (ROS), thousands of students, developers and researchers world-wide collaborate to create and refine intelligent, open software for robotic communication, navigation, device control and artificial intelligence. Kauai Labs Robot Software brings cutting-edge developments to students, researchers, hobbyists and corporations  – enabling localization, vision processing, sensor fusion and more on …

Robot Controllers/Co-processors

Powerful, low-cost electronics featuring integrated, easy-to-use libraries and tools enable mere mortals to Build Better Robots®. The VMX-pi Robot Controller/Co-processor provides I/O, communication, sensing and compute resources – at a ground-breaking low price in a compact package designed for building intelligent robots. Robotics Controller/Motion & Vision Co-processor for Raspberry Pi

Support

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2017 FIRST Robotics Challenge: “Steamworks”

Kauai Labs, a FIRST FRC supplier, is providing several open source products to FIRST Robotics Challenge (FRC) teams competing in the 2017 “Steamworks” competition. These include: navX-MXP Robotics Navigation Sensor navX-Micro Robotics Navigation Sensor SF2 Sensor Fusion Framework These open source sensors and software libraries and framework enable sophisticated navigation capabilities to student-built robots, providing …

Kauai Labs announces new SF2 Sensor Fusion Framework

New for 2017.  Integrate navX-MXP/Micro with robotic Vision Processing to increase accuracy. Kauai Labs announces the release of the new Sensor Fusion Framework (SF2).  SF2 is a free, open-source software framework making navX-MXP and navX-Micro even more powerful – fusing multiple sensors together to help you build even better robots.  Available in LabVIEW, C++ and Java …

navX-Micro sells out on first day of FIRSTChoice 2017 Round 1

Kauai Labs is proud to support FIRST Robotics and recently donated 200 navX-Micro Robotics Navigation sensors to the 2017 FRC FIRSTChoice program – making them freely available to FRC teams. We’re happy to say that all 200 navX-Micro sensors were ordered on the first day of Round 1! For those of you not fortunate enough …

Kauai Labs announces new Canadian Distributor

navX-MXP is very popular among FIRST Robotics Challenge (FRC) robotics teams, including the Runner-up FRC Alliance Captain Team (2056 – OP Robotics) at the 2016 FIRST World Championships in St. Louis, Missouri. In order to make navX-MXP more easily available to Canadian teams at a lower cost, Kauai Labs is happy to announce that Studica will …