ROS Developers Podcast

Show notes here: https://www.theconstructsim.com/ 81-building-a-ros2-robotics-startup-with-nick-fragale Today we are going to talk about things to take into account when thinking about building your own robotics startup, with the help of Nick Fragale from Rover Robotics

Show notes here: https://www.theconstructsim.com/ 80-making-ros2-secure-with-sros2-with-mikael-argedas Today we are talking to Mikael Argedas about how to make ROS2 systems secure. He has been for more than 3 years a ROS Developer at Open Robotics. He is one of the guys who makes ROS!!! Specially he was in charge of developing ROS2 mainly everything concerned about making ROS2 more secure. At pres...

Show notes here: https://www.theconstructsim.com/ 79-the-future-of-robot-development This episode describes my personal vision about how is going to be the future of robot developers, those are, the people that create the programs the run inside the robot. Those people are the key to build actual intelligent robots.

Find the show notes here: https://www.theconstructsim.com/ 78-everything-about-moveit-with-dave-coleman / This episode about everything you need to know about the MoveIt project, and how you can use it for your robotic manipulator. Dave Coleman is the CEO of PickNik company, the company behind the development of MoveIt. He has been one of the main developers of MoveIt since the very beginning. He...

Get the show notes here: https://www.theconstructsim.com/?p=22096 James Burton is an electrical and mechanical engineer who dedicates to build robot projects and post the whole process online on his Youtube channel. He has built amazing electromechanical projects like the BB-8 robot, the batman skateboard or the OpenDog. He is the real Youtube Maker for robotics projects!

Show notes: https://www.theconstructsim.com/ 76-ros2-navigation-stack-with-steve-macenski One of the problems to move to ROS2 was the lack of a stable navigation system for ROS2 robots. But as you will learn today, this problem has been solved. So if you want to move to ROS2 and want to try to make a robot navigate, then this episode is dedicated to you.

Shownotes: https://www.theconstructsim.com/?p=20895 Luis Sentis is an associated professor in aerospace engineering at University of Austin in Texas and a holds a PhD from Stanford about humanoid robots. He is also founder of Apptronik Systems and member of the board. Apptronik a company developing actuators and controllers for robots with high power and high efficiency. They are about to launch t...

Shownotes here: http://www.theconstructsim.com/the-new-generation-of-state-machines-for-ros-with-brett-aldrich Today we are going to about evolving state machines from the original SMACH Brett is the CEO of REEL ROBOTix, a company that is in the process of putting to the market some hardware for robots (secret yet!). However, within that company, Brett found the necessity to give a different appro...

In case you are thinking about buying some robots for your class on robotics, here you are going to find a list of some of the most interesting ones, based on my own experience as teacher of robotics at University of LaSalle Barcelona. The list contains a series of robots that you as a teacher can consider buying for making your students practice with real robots using ROS. Shownotes: https://www....

Today we are going to chat with one of those professionals that have started a very interesting business on top of ROS. He provides robots to really market products. He will clearly describe the reasoning behind the creation of that business and why it is completely different from current robot based marketing efforts like Pepper and the like. Shownotes here: https://www.theconstructsim.com/?p=200...

Today we are going to talk about the Autoware foundation and how it is pushing forward the creation of self-driving cars powered by ROS. Check here the show notes: https://www.theconstructsim.com/the-autoware-foundation-self-driving-cars-with-joshua-whitley

Today we are going to chat with the person behind the hub of robots. Did you heard of Git Hub? No I meant a hub of robots! What is that? You are going to learn it in a minute. Shownotes: http://www.theconstructsim.com/the-hub-of-robots-with-brandon-dehart

In this episode we are going to review a Knowledge Map that contains all the basic concepts that any ROS Developer has to master. We provide a pdf that includes the map with direct links to the wiki pages where to find the full description. Check the shownotes for the pdf with direct links to the ROS Basics concepts: https://wp.me/p9Rthq-4eW

See the shownotes here: http://www.theconstructsim.com/68-ignition-gazebo-ros-simulator-with-louise-poubel Today we are going to talk with the lead developer of Gazebo simulator and she is going to tell us about the next generation of Gazebo which is a complete rewriting of the simulator based on a new set of libraries, the Ignition libraries. Well, those are the questions that we are going to hav...

Show notes: http://www.theconstructsim.com/ onboard-deep-learning-with-nvidia-jetson-nano-and-ros-with-miguel-angel-rodriguez Today we are going to talk with a ROS Developer that has built a ROS robot based on Nvidia Jetson nano in order to do deep learning experiments with ROS robots. Miguel Angel is the CTO of The Construct . There he builds robots, develops ROS code and creates online courses f...

Today we are going to talk with one of the persons behind Fast-RTPS, you know the default DDS mechanism that Open Robotics ships with ROS2.   What is Fast-RTPS? Why is it shipped by default on ROS2? How can we take the most of it? Well, those are the questions that we are going to have answered today

That is why today, I would like to dedicate the episode to all the listeners of this podcast. It is thanks to you that are listening, that we can keep doing this podcast. Thanks to your support, to your comments, to your shares in the social networks, that our podcast has a reason of being.

Today, I would like to dedicate the episode to all those ROS developers that attended the ROSCON 2019 a couple of months ago. I can tell you that it was the best ROSCON ever. I hope that you enjoyed it as much as I did, and that you learned as much as I did. I mean, you can learn so much in such conference that at the end of the day you can feel how your brain cannot handle anymore. Amazing! Today...

Show notes here: http://www.theconstructsim.com/ros-in-micro-controllers-using-u-ros-with-borja-outerelo Today, I would like to dedicate the episode to all those ROS developers that are figuring out new ways to use ROS. We know ROS is used in a robot with a computer that runs Linux Ubuntu and we program in C++ or Python. That's it. But then, there are a lot of people thinking about how to use ROS...

Today we are going to talk with Joe Speed from ADLink, one of the companies that are pushing ROS 2 forward with their DDS implementation: Cyclone DDS.

Today we are going to talk with the person behind the development of ROS for Windows, Lou Amadio. Lou is Principal Development Lead in the core operating system group at Microsoft focusing on robotics and autonomous systems.  I presume that that role is the one that leads him to get interested in ROS, but we are going to know about it in this interview.

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...

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 solu...

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-foun...

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 l...