ROS Developers Podcast

ROS Developers Podcast

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  • 98. Awesome projects with ROS with Francisco Miranda

    I would like to dedicate this episode to people that are thinking about new ways to apply ROS and robots in order to provide new solutions to difficult problems. Now let me introduce you Francisco Miranda who is the founder of DSI Metric Solutions. With his company, Francisco is applying ROS to many different sectors in amazing companies like Blue Origin, Disney Research and even Marvel. Let’s hear from Francisco about the amazing projects he has been working using ROS. Welcome to the podcast Francisco!
    Related links



    * Follow Francisco in LinkedIn
    * DSI Metric Solutions Company
    * Space ROS (collaboration between NASA and Blue Origin)




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  • 98. China’s AI Plan for 2030

    A couple of months ago, Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, was talking to the US congress. He indicated that, in terms of AI, China may be only 1 year behind the USA. Schmidt was worried that the USA may lose in the next years to China the leading position in AI that they are having at present.
    In this post, we are going to explore how the world has reached this situation. We will review the plan of China on AI for the next years, what are the reasons behind it, what it involves and what is its current state.
    China’s AI awakening moment
    According to Kaifu Li, ex-director of Google China, it all started in 2016 when a reinforcement learning program created by DeepMind won the game of Go to the world human champion, Lee Sedol. For Chinese people, a computer winning a person at this ancient game was shocking. It was at this moment when China realized the importance of AI and how their future as a country depended on leading it.
    Moved by that realization, in 2017 China’s government released their strategic plan to lead the world of AI by 2030. They called it: New Generation AI Development Plan for 2030. 
    In this strategic document, China’s government states that being a leader in AI technology is critical for their military and economic position in the world. 
    Their goal, states the document, is to become an AI power by embedding  AI in all aspects of life, industry and commerce. 
    China’s advantages and drawbacks
    Advantages
    They plan to leverage their advantage to other countries on four aspects:

    First, a large amount of data that they are generating both online and offline. As you probably know, China has already a society that functions based on the mobile internet. Chinese can pay for anything and everything with their phone. This feature generates a lot of data from each transaction that Chinese people do on it. And this data is not only related to online purchases and actions, but also offline payments made at the supermarket, the barber or the cinema.
    Second, a race of startup gladiators, as Kaifu Lee calls them in his book AI superpowers. Those are all the startup leaders that are used to compete against each other in the most difficult conditions, trained in an environment where copying others is seen as the normal thing to do. This implies that for a Chinese startup to survive, they have to thrive even more, move faster, innovate faster, and take possession of the market faster. Otherwise, another startup will copy them and take them out of the game.
    A committed government, which is willing to put the resources to achieve the success of the plan by providing the infrastructures and the supporting conditions for companies to flourish. In order to better understand this point, let me clarify that the government AI plan acts more like a wish list rather than an actual list of commands. The government indicates a list of technologies they would like to see built, and then incentivises local officials to promote in the private sector the development of those technologies, by using subsidies, public contracts, and AI-friendly policies.
    A society hungry for success. People in China want to be rich, and they will go wherever there is a chance to become one, and they will put all their effort into it.

    Drawbacks
    Having indicated the advantages of China to lead the AI of the world, the document also indicates the drawbacks they are facing:
    1. A Lack of cutting-edge AI talent:  The Government of China identifies that they lack people trained in AI and related fields. So in order to solve this problem, they launched in 2018 the AI Innovation Action Plan for Colleges and Universities with which they plan to train 500 teachers and 5.000 students in 5 years. 

    as for their 2020 report, they have achieved 103 non-university scientific research institutions in the field of AI
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  • 98. Chima's AI Plan 2030

    We will review the plan of China on AI for the next years, what are the reasons behind it, what it involves and what is its current state.

    Shownotes: https://www.theconstructsim.com/98-chinas-ai-plan-for-2030

    25 min
  • 97. Visualization and debugging tools for ROS robots

    Let me introduce you Adrian Macneil who is a former director of infrastructure at Cruise and currently the CEO and co-founder of Foxglove, a company in the mission to create better robotics visualization tools. Today we are going to talk to him about the tools they are developing to simplify our debugging needs.

    1 hr 17 min
  • 96. How Robotnik built a world leader robotics company based on ROS





    I would like to dedicate this episode to people that are thinking about building their own robotics startup. Yes the world needs you. Somebody has to build the robots that we saw in the movies. Those robots that help humans in dangerous environments like the Moon or Mars. Those robots that take the hard jobs in their shoulders, those robots that become our must trusted companions.



    Today we are going to learn first experience of a person who built a world leader robotics startup based in ROS.



    Now let me introduce you Roberto Guzman. Roberto is the founder and CEO of Robotnik company, a ROS based robotics company that produces many types of service robots. He is a ROS expert and has many years experience launching service robots to the market. Real service robots!



    Let’s talk with him about the creation of a successful ROS based robotics company.



    Related links



    * Follow Roberto in LinkedIn* Robotnik Automation* ROS Components store



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  • 95. Teaching ROS at the US Air Forces with Steve Beyer





    I’m Ricardo, from The Construct.



    I would like to dedicate this episode to people that teaches robotics and ROS around the world.



    Today we are going to learn how the US military Air Force learn to program robots with ROS.



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    Steve Beyer



    Now let me introduce you Steve Beyer. Steve is an embedded systems engineer and roboticist that is a member of the United States Air Force developing the US Air Force’s digital communications infrastructure in the Middle East. More recently, he changed his role to senior instructor of embedded systems and robotics at the United States Air Force Academy.



    Let’s talk with him about the teaching of robotics in the US Air Force.



    DISCLAIMER: The views expressed during this interview are the author’s and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of Defense,  the United States Government, United States Air Force, or United States Air Force Academy.



    Welcome to the podcast Steve!



    Related links



    * Follow Steve in LinkedIn* Find all robots of Steve, code and designs at https://www.beyersbots.com/* His paper to be published soon: * S. M. Beyer, “uSAFABOT: A robotics learning platform for a hands-on laboratory approach in an introductory ECE course,” 2021 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Long Beach, CA, US, 2021, accepted.* Deep Work book, by Carl Newport







    * Practicing Deep Work, book training program, by Rick Tellez







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  • 95. Teaching ROS at the US Air Forces by Steve Beyer

    Show notes here: https://www.theconstructsim.com/95-teaching-ros-at-the-us-air-forces-with-steve-beyer/

    Now let me introduce you Steve Beyer. Steve is an embedded systems engineer and roboticist that is a member of the United States Air Force developing the US Air Force's digital communications infrastructure in the Middle East. More recently, he changed his role to senior instructor of embedded systems and robotics at the United States Air Force Academy.

    Let's talk with him about the teaching of robotics in the US Air Force.

    1 hr 10 min

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Become an expert in robot programming with ROS by listening to the experts. Every week, we interview an expert in robot programming with ROS who will give us tips and tricks based on his experience.…