ROS Developers Podcast

Today, we are continuing with the series of podcast interviews that we did at ROSCON. Also I would like to dedicate the episode to those ROS developers that do not use ROS on Ubuntu.

Today we are going to talk with the A team of people that work a Canonical, you know, the company behind the development of Ubuntu.

But before going into that, let me remind you about our ROS online academy. Yes, at the Construct we have created an online academy named The Robot Ignite Academy which contains a ROS learning path for beginners. We start by teaching you Linux and Python for robotics, and we continue teaching you all the basic ROS concepts required to become a master of ROS. We conclude with a course that teaches you how to build your own robot and how to ROSify it, add ROS control to it so you can finally become a ROS Developer.

I'll put a link to the academy in the show notes. www.robotigniteacademy.com

So now, it is my pleasure to introduce you Jeremy Deray and Dragan Stancevic, two guys from Canonical that are attending here to the ROSCON

Jeremie is a software developer at robotics team of canonical, ROS developer with several years experience building ROS software for humanoid robots, and Dragan is robotics security engineer at canonical, responsive for securing ROS

Welcome to the podcast Jeremie and Dragan!

- What do you do at canonical? What is the relation of your work with ROS?

- Why so many people from Canonical here at the ROSCON? Are you presenting something?

- Is there a special team dedicated to everything related to ROS?

- What is the problem of real time in robotics and how Ubuntu handles that at present?

- How can we work with Ubuntu in simpler computers? Any versions of Ubuntu for smaller machines, like Raspberry Pi? Anything available for micro-controllers?

- What are snaps and why are they important for robotics?

- What other projects related to robotics is Canonical working at?

- Recently Canonical joined the ROS 2 technical steering committee. What is your role there?

- Anything special for ROS 2 from Canonical?

The following podcast episode was recorded during the ROSCON 2019 in Macau. Today, we are going to talk with the person behind RoboMaker, the cloud robotics solution from Amazon. But before going into that, let me remind you about our ROS online academy. Yes, at The Construct we have created an online academy named the

Today we are going to talk with the person behind RoboMaker, the cloud robotics solution from Amazon.

It is my pleasure to introduce you Roger Barga. Roger is an expert in computing clouds. First working as Group Program Manager for Microsoft Azure, and now as the General Manager of Amazon Web Services for robotics and autonomous services. He is the leader of AWS RoboMaker, the robotics cloud solution created by Amazon to speed up ROS development.

Check the show notes here: : http://www.theconstructsim.com/aws-robomaker-with-roger-barga

Check the show notes here: http://www.theconstructsim.com/ros-robots-for-researchers-educators-and-developers-with-michael-ferguson

My pleasure to introduce you Michael Ferguson. Michael is the CTO and president of Botnuvo, a young robotics company that has just launched its first product. Michael started into work with ROS in 2010 as a software engineer at Willow Garage, From there, he co-founded Unbounded Robotics, the precursor of Fetch robotics. Then he moved to Fetch Robotics as CTO, and only recently he founded Botnuvo, a new company that builds robots for researchers educators and developers.

Today, I would like to dedicate the podcast to porting packages from ROS1 to ROS2. There is still a lot of work to be done, but you are making this possible. This episode is dedicated to you! And today, it is my pleasure to introduce you Steve Macenski. Steve is open source robotics engineer lead

Check the shownotes here.

It is my pleasure to introduce you Steve Macenski. Steve is open source robotics engineer lead at Samsung Research America. Before leading the open source robotics group at Samsung Research, he led the robotics team at Simbe Robotics building fully-autonomous store-auditing robot solutions. At present, He is the primary maintainer and developer of several ROS2 packages like Navigation2, Robot localisation and today's subject of the podcast, Slam Toolbox. He is also a member of the ROS2 Technical Steering Committee. He is going to talk today about his Slam Toolbox package among other things.

Today, I would like to dedicate the episode to those ROS developers that use ROS with outdoor robots. You know that most of the ROS robots are basically indoor ones, where the level of control of the environment is a little bit higher. When you move outdoors…. Then things start to complicate a little bit

Shownotes with all the links here: http://www.theconstructsim.com/using-nvidia-jetson-tx2-with-ros-with-raffaello-bonghi

Today we are going to talk with a ROS Developer that is using Nvidia Jetson board to control a 9Kg outdoors robot. It is my pleasure to introduce you Raffaello Bonghi a ROS developer using Nvidia Jetson board to build the Panther robot, a ROS project that you can build using the full information that Raffaello has released. His project has been recently featured into the Nvidia Jetson projects page.

Today, I would like to dedicate the episode to those ROS developers that use simulations as a key element in their ROS development. I mean, you use the simulation to test your programs until they work properly in it and then, and only then, you move to the real robot testing. For the professional ROS

Get the shownotes at: http://www.theconstructsim.com/webots-robot-simulator-ros-olivier-michel

Today, I would like to dedicate the episode to those ROS developers that use simulations as a key element in their ROS development. I mean, you use the simulation to test your programs until they work properly in it and then, and only then, you move to the real robot testing. For the professional ROS developers, this podcast is dedicated to you!

And today, it is my pleasure to introduce you Olivier Michel CEO of Cyberbotics, the company that develops Webots simulator. Olivier is going to explain us, how the Webots simulator started, what are its main features, why it became open source, and how we can use it with ROS by using the webots_ros package.