I would like to dedicate this episode to all the developers working on building small robots for practice while studying ROS. There are very few ROS-based robots for students that are reliable. Now let’s go to the meat of the episode. Let me introduce you . Victor has a large career in building ROS-based companies. He was the founder of Erle Robotics the first company to deliver drones based on ROS, Alias Robotics, a company concentrated on providing security to ROS robots and now Acceleration Robotics which is a company concentrated on… let’s see what it is about.   Welcome to the podcast Victor!

I would like to dedicate this episode to the people that use ROS to develop autonomous robots that (will) move around us in our streets, together with us, humans, doing some useful tasks.

Now let me introduce you Tomohiko Furutani. Tomohiko-san is the manager of the AI Robot development section of Softbank. Welcome to the podcast Tomohiko-san!  

I would like to dedicate this episode to people that are working to make robots more understandable by humans. People want people to interact seamlessly with robots. That robots understand us and that we understand robots.

Now let me introduce you Severin Lemaignan. Severin is a senior scientist in social robotics at Pal Robotics. There he works to develop ways to make communication between humans and robots easier. Today he is going to explain everything about HRI and his project about how to get a general framework of HRI for ROS robots.   Welcome to the podcast Severin!

I would like to dedicate this episode to all the developers working on making efficient warehouse robots using ROS ( ROS-based warehouse robot). If you are in that field, if you are trying to make the picking system easier for all the warehouses around the world, then this episode is dedicated to you.

Now let’s go to the meat of the episode. Let me introduce you Gajamohan Mohanarajah. Gajan is the founder of Rapyuta robotics a company created in 2014 as an ETH spinoff focusing on cloud robotics. Welcome to the podcast Gaja!

I would like to dedicate this episode to the people that use other robotics frameworks different from ROS… and succeed. You know, ROS already provides you with a fully working robotics framework as well as many software for main robotics tasks. If you go outside ROS, the robotics world is cold, difficult, and hostile. If a company is able to succeed in such conditions, then that indicates strength and mastery. Good for you! If your company is in such a situation, then this episode is dedicated to you.   Now let’s go to the meat of the episode. Let me introduce you Denys Kanunikov and Sam Thornton.  Denys and Sam work at Mujin, a robotics company that…. well you are going to learn in a minute. For the moment, let me tell you that Denys is the lead robotics system engineer of Mujin and Sam is the Manager of Talent acquisition.   Welcome to the podcast Denys and Sam!

I would like to dedicate this episode to all the developers working on using ROS for autonomous cars, then this episode is dedicated to you.

Now let’s go to the meat of the episode. Let me introduce you Dr. Shimpei Kato. Shimpei is the founder of Tier IV as well as Chairman of the board of directors of the Autoware Foundation. Additionally, he is an associate professor of the University of Tokyo. 

Welcome to the podcast Shimpei!

I would like to dedicate this episode to all the ROSDevelopers out there that have started or are already progressed doing progressing in programming robots by using FPGA and accelerating hardware of any kind. So if you are any of those engineers or ROSDevelopers using accelerate hardware for your robot, then this episode is dedicated to you!

Now let me introduce you Giulio Corradi who is the principal architect industrial vision healthcare at AMD. Giulio, welcome to the Podcast!

I would like to dedicate this episode to the people that are developing space systems for the colonization of space, using ROS-based robots. If you are involved in this progress of humanity, this episode is dedicated to you.

Now let me introduce you Alex Sowell and Misha Savchenko. Alex and Misha work on the Dexterous Robotics Team at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. Alex is is Technical Lead for Robotics at CACI International, and Misha is Software Lead at METECS. They both work together to build the next generation of robots for NASA.

I would like to dedicate this episode to people that are thinking is time to switch ROS1 from ROS2

In this episode we are going to talk about Webots – a mature Open Source Simulator for ROS2.

Now let me introduce to you Olivier Michael. Olivier is the founder and CEO of Cyberbotics – the company that develops Webots Simulator. He is been developing Webots for more than 20 years. So now it is a very mature product.

Related links

* Follow Olivier Michel on LinkedIn

* Cyberbotics company

* Webots open source robotics simulator, documentation

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I would like to dedicate this episode to the people that build and maintain the core of ROS, that is the people of Open Robotics. But specifically, this episode is dedicated to the Open Robotics team in Singapore that is heavily working on the development of Open-RMF, the new kid in town. Thank you very much to Matthew, Yadu, Aaron, and Luca. Thanks for the time together at Singapore, especially during the quiz night where we almost hit 100% on the killing round. Now let me introduce you Matthew Festo, who is the general manager of Open Robotics, Singapore. Matthew welcome to the Podcast!

 

Related links

* Follow Matthew Festo on LinkedIn

* Open Robotics, Singapore

* Open Robotics, the company behind ROS development

* Open-RMF Fleet Management Framework

* The Multirrobot book by OR

* Write your questions, feedback, and requests to the Open-RMF team here

* The ROSCon 2022

* The full 3 days training The Construct delivers about Open-RMF

Subscribe to the podcast using any of the following methods

* ROS Developers Podcast on iTunes

* ROS Developers Podcast on Stitcher

* ROS Developers Podcast on Spotify

Or watch the video interview