{
  "id": 6641105,
  "title": "Building a Person-Following Robot with Jetson, YOLO and ROS 2",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/building-a-person-following-robot-with-jetson-yolo-and-ros-2",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-10T20:29:38.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/vmodal_ai/building-a-person-following-robot-with-jetson-yolo-and-ros-2-5flk"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "This tutorial provides a step-by-step guide on building a person-following robot using Jetson, YOLO, and ROS 2. The key steps include preparing the Jetson, installing and verifying ROS 2, creating a ROS 2 workspace, developing a package, understanding the data flow, publishing a simple ROS 2 message, adding the main AI/robot component, including logging and diagnostics, implementing a safety layer, connecting Flutter, testing the system, optimizing for Jetson, and making the deployment reproducible. The tutorial emphasizes the importance of a clear architecture, safety measures, and testing at each stage before moving on to the next.",
  "summary": "Building a Person-Following Robot with Jetson, YOLO and ROS 2 Create a conceptual person-following pipeline using camera detections, target selection, tracking, distance estimation, and velocity commands. The tutorial includes safety zones and stop conditions so perception failure does not automatically become a motion command. What You Will Build By the end of this tutorial, you will have: A…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}