ROS Developers Podcast

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 th...

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 dev...

Get the shownotes at http://www.theconstructsim.com/ the-dogbot-quadruped-for-ai-research-with-greg-epps Today, it is my pleasure to introduce you Gregory Epps from React Robotics. Greg is the CEO of React Robotics a company based in London dedicated to the development of low-latency, torque-controlled, super-light robots with the aim to provide those robots to researchers so they can concentrate...

Check the show notes here:   http://www.theconstructsim.com/ a-history-of-ros ROS (Robot Operating System) is now very popular among roboticists. Researchers, hobbyists, and even robotics companies are using it, promoting it and supporting it. However, it was not always like that. Do you know ROS history? In the early days, ROS was an unknown only used by a bunch of robotics freaks. How did ROS re...

Check the show notes here:   http://www.theconstructsim.com/ros-student-simon-steinmann-shares-his-ros-learning-experience It is my pleasure to introduce you Simon Steinmann. Simon is a student at University of British Columbia in Canada. There he works on his master thesis on robotics and machine learning. Since he needed to learn ROS for his thesis, Simon enrolled our Robot Ignite Academy to boo...

Episode notes here:  http://www.theconstructsim.com/ why-do-we-need-to-learn-ros This episode is dedicated to the notion that you can make an impact in society by creating the intelligence of the robots of the future. I want to convert you into a robotics developer. In case you want to become a robotics developer, then you need to learn ROS. Wait a minute! Some questions arise here! First of all,...

In this episode Zach Allen, CEO of Slate Robotics will explain about his mobile manipulator TR2 robot. What is a mobile manipulator? It is a robot that is able to navigate around an environment and it is also able to grasp things. In order to work with human stuff, a mobile manipulator must be big enough to reach objects in tables, and capable enough to reach objects in the ground. Zach is going t...

Francisco is associate professor at Rey Juan Carlos University (Madrid, Spain) and member of Robotics Lab. He is a participant at the European Robotics League, at the Smart CIties RObotics Challenges. For that competition, Francisco has created a ROS package named darknet_ros_3D. He is going to tell us about this package and how they are using it at the competition. Get all the shownotes at the po...

Today, it is my pleasure to introduce you Phillip J. Reed from SWRI . P.J. works at SWRI as a developer. There he has developed a bunch of very useful tools for different situations on ROS that we are going to review today here. Find complete notes with links and data at the show-notes in this web page: http://www.theconstructsim.com/rdp-048-amazing-ros-tools-swri-p-j-reed

Today, it is my pleasure to introduce you Michael Cashmore and Gerard Canal. They came here today to tell us more about how to design the behaviour of a ROS based robot using ROSplan. Check the shownotes in the following page: http://www.theconstructsim.com/ rdp-047-ros-plan-michael-cashmore

This is Ricardo Tellez, from The Construct. Today, I would like to dedicate the podcast to the people who is already thinking about the summer holidays. Going to the beach, having sun, drinking something cold... and your robot playing in the water! And today, it is my pleasure to introduce you Nils Bore. Nils is postdoc at the DIVISION OF ROBOTICS, PERCEPTION AND LEARNING of the Royal Institute of...

Today, I'm very honoured to introduce you Wolf Vollprecht. Wolf is scientific software engineer at Quanstack in Paris. He works in his day to day with Jupyter notebooks and also, he is a lover of robotics and ROS. That is why he decided to combine the two worlds and create the jupyter-ros widgets that allow us to embed interfaces to ROS into jupyter notebooks. How cool is that?!?! Wolf came here t...

Hi ROS Developers and welcome to the ROS Developers Podcast: the program, the podcast that gives you insights from the experts about how to program your robots with ROS. This is Ricardo Tellez, from The Construct. Today, I would like to dedicate the podcast to all those ROS developers that are planning to attend to ROS conferences during the summer. There are several ROS Summer Schools and confere...

Hi ROS Developers and welcome to the ROS Developers Podcast: the program, the podcast that gives you insights from the experts about how to program your robots with ROS. This is Ricardo Tellez, from The Construct. Today, we are going to dedicate the program to all those developers that are giving their first steps in the ROS worlds. We know it is not easy. We dedicate the episode to you. Keep push...

Tully is the man behind the ROS maintenance. Of course, he is backed up with a team of ROS developers, some of which, we have already interviewed here in previous episodes. But we can say that Tully is the manager. In Spanish we would say that Tully is "el que corta el bacalao". Get the show notes here: http://www.theconstructsim.com/rdp042-ros-developed-ros-platform-manager-tully-foote

Hi ROS Developers and welcome to the ROS Developers Podcast: the program, the podcast that gives you insights from the experts about how to program your robots with ROS. This is Ricardo Tellez, from The Construct. Today, I would like to dedicate the podcast to all those ROS developers that are in charge of the whole development structure that allows a ROS developer create, test and debug his ROS p...

Interview to Alexander Rossler. Alexander is a solopreneur providing services for developing embedded systems and HMI at his company Roessler Systems. He has a very interesting blog called Machine Koder (with K) where he posts about development for robots us.

We are going to interview Omri Ben-Bassat from Tel Aviv, a self-taught programmer, hacker and robotics enthusiastic ever since joining the FIRST robotics competition team back in high school. Omri Ben-Bassat has created the vector-ros package, a package to ROSify the Anki Vector robot, you know, that super cute small robot made by Anki company. With this package, you can control the Anki robot usi...

We are going to interview Gonzalo Casas Software engineer at ETH Zurich. There, Gonzalo has developed the ROSlibPy a library that allows to create Python programs that can connect to ROS without having to install ROS in your system. It is very useful to interact from Windows or Mac machines with ROS robots

Davide is a fervent developer of tools for robotics. So this time, he is going to talk about another super useful tool that he has developed. It is called PlotJuggler. Let's learn with Davide what is PlotJuggler, how you can use and which are the best practices

Today we are going to talk with Mirko Bordignon, a co-manager of ROS-Industrial Consortium Europe. He is going to tell us about what is this consortium, what is its goal, and how you can use ROS with industrial robots by using the software they are release

Today, we are going to talk with Thilo Zimmermann, one of the leaders of the ROSin European Project, a project aiming to provide ROS-industrial quality assured robot software component. The project has several components, and Thilo is going to teach us today which components are those and how can we contribute to them while getting some funding.

Hi ROS Developers and welcome to the ROS Developers Podcast: the program, the podcast that gives you insights from the experts about how to program your robots with ROS. I'm Ricardo Tellez, from The Construct. Today, we are at the ROS Industrial conference (Europe). I had the chance to meet Christian Henkel who presented at the conference the dockeROS library. DockeROS allows to dockerize ROS appl...

Hi ROS Developers and welcome to the ROS Developers Podcast: the program, the podcast that gives you insights from the experts about how to program your robots with ROS. I'm Ricardo Tellez, from The Construct. Today, I would like to dedicate the program to all the ROS Developers that thought that a state machine would do the work, but once implemented, they do not work for a specific case, so we h...

Let's learn in this episode how to use Swift with ROS! What is Swift? Why it may be useful to program with it in ROS? How to actually do it? All those questions and many more to be answered by Thomas Gustafsson, creator of the Swift ROS client package. Be come an expert in robot programming with ROS by listening to the experts. Ever y week, we interview an expert in robot programming with ROS who...