ROS Developers Podcast

In this episode, you are going to learn how to make multiple robots navigate in a ROS2 environment, and how to use the Open-RMF to manage different fleets. Now let me introduce you to Yadunund Vijay. Yadunund is one of the main developers of the Open-RMF at Open Robotics in Singapore. He is also the technical leader of several other software projects using ROS2. What is the Open-RMF? Why do we nee...

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.

In this episode we are going to learn about how to develop ROS2 programs with less effort, in a more efficient way, by using a set of ROS2 tools encapsulated in a distribution. Now let me introduce to you Jaime Martin. Jaime is the CEO of eProsima the company developing Fast DDS, the default middleware for the upcoming release of ROS2 Humble. He is an expert in middlewares, and as such, he leads a...

In this episode, we are going to learn about how ROS can help in achieving the dreamed goal of building autonomous robots.  Now let me introduce you Lou Amadio. Lou is the principal software development lead for Azure Edge Robotics at Microsoft. His team works on ROS for Windows but he also leads other adjacent projects related to ROS and Microsoft services

In this episode we are going to learn about how ROS can help in achieving the dreamed goal of building autonomous robots. Now let me introduce you Antonio Manuel Lopez, who is an ICREA Academia professor in the computer science department of the universitat autonoma de Barceloa and principal investigator in autonomous driving at the computer vision center in Spain. He is one the responsible of the...

In this episode we are going to learn about how ROS can help in achieving the dreamed goal of building autonomous robots. Now let me introduce you Patrick Musau, who is a graduated research assistant at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems of Vanderbilt University at the USA. He recently delivered an interesting presentation at the ROS World 2021 entitled Towards Assured Autonomy with ROS...

In this episode, we are reviewing how was the year for ROS. Was any good? Let's figure out! Show notes here: https://www.theconstructsim.com/ 99-2021-ros-recap / ‎

Today we are talking to Francisco Miranda. Francisco is the founder of DSI Metric Solutions, where he develops amazing projects based on ROS for companies like Blue Origin, Disney Research, Marvel, etc.

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

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.

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.

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...

In this episode we will learn how to get some money for our new startup. Which options do we have and how should we proceed.

Shownotes: https://www.theconstructsim.com/ 93-using-unity-with-ros,-with-sarah-gibson Today we are going to learn how we can use amazing Unity powered simulations with ROS controllers. Let me introduce you Sarah Gibson, Senior Engineering Manager, Robotics | Unity Technologies. She is going to talk with me about using Unity in robotics development, and specially in using ROS and Unity to build RO...

Shownotes: https://www.theconstructsim.com/ 92-ros-in-space-with-allison-thackston / Let me introduce you Allison Thackston one of the engineers developing some parts of Robonaut. Her ROS code was running out on space! Today she is here to talk about her experience shipping code to Space.  

This episode is about understanding why you can't build your startup alone, and some criteria to properly select your co-founders.

Shownotes: https://www.theconstructsim.com/ 90-sina-interviews-ricardo-about-basic-concepts-of-ros In this episode, Ricardo is the one interviewed. Sina Pourghodrat is a Surgical Robotics Software Engineer who on his spare time runs a Youtube channel about Robotics and how to become a roboticists. He wanted to interview Ricardo in order to introduce ROS to his audience, and let them know of the im...

In this podcast series we are going to explain how to create a robotics startup step by step. Get full details at the show notes: https://www.theconstructsim.com/ 89-how-to-build-a-robotics-startup:-the-product-idea

Shownotes: https://www.theconstructsim.com/ 88-it-takes-a-village-to-build-a-ros-robot-with-sophia-kolak Let me introduce you Sophia Kolak. Sophia is a software researcher at Carnegie Mellon university. In 2019 she presented a talk at the ROSCON 2019 entitled: It Takes a Village to Build a Robot: An Empirical Study of The ROS Ecosystem Today she is here to talk about her paper and why it matters f...

Shownotes: https://www.theconstructsim.com/ 87-optimized-embedded-linux-for-ros-with-raul-munoz Today we are going to learn how we can optimize the Linux distribution for embedded computers and how we can use that with ROS.

Shownotes: https://www.theconstructsim.com/ 86-reproducing-robotic-simulations-for-reinforcement-learning-with-gym-ignition / Today we are going to learn how we can speed our development of such algorithms for ROS robots by using Gym-Ignition.

Show notes here: https://www.theconstructsim.com/ 85-ros2-control-with-bence-magyar Today we are going to learn about the current status of ROS2 Control, you know, the packages that allow us to control joints using ROS topics. let me introduce you Bence Magyar. Bence and I we worked together at Pal Robotics. Now he works as Lead software engineer for FiveAI. But the main reason he is here with us...

Shownotes: https://www.theconstructsim.com/ 84-hybrid-ros1-ros2-industrial-applications Today we are going to talk with some guys from SWRI and ROS-Industrial consortium that have just done that: built hybrid applications with ROS1 and ROS2 on industrial robots

Shownotes: https://www.theconstructsim.com/ 83-real-time-control-on-ros2-with-luca-marchionni / Now let me introduce you Luca Marchionni. What can I say about Luca? Luca and I we have worked together for 5 years at Pal Robotics designing navigation algorithms for the humanoid robots. Then Luca worked on problems of control of closed loop systems, whole body control, walking, motion planning and co...

Shownotes here: https://www.theconstructsim.com/ 82-available-ros2-hardware Get a list of available robots and sensors that already work with ROS2.