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Who Am I?
Yujin Robot Innovation Team co-leader.
Embedded/Control Engineer
Algorithms Monkey
Software Architect
B Science., B Electrical Engineering, Phd. Mathematics.
Who Am I?
Who Am I?
Contents
- Where are we with Robotics?
- Who is doing what?
- ROS/OSRF and the Robotics Community
- Why is it so damned
difficult - Some stories
- Do you have what it takes?
- Forging a new business
- Yujin's toys
Where Are We?
Been trying to get
At least two waves of venture capital
...early 90s and 00s
Riding the New Wave
GPS, 3d sensors, embedded cpu power, batteries, web services, cloud, handhelds, IoT
Suddenly people writing alot more on software than hardware
Remember the PC sw revolution?
And when they move, they move fast.
Who is doing what?
Warehouse Logistics - Khiva @ Amazon
Manipulation & Mobility - Google Acquisitions
Automated Tractors - Many
Automated Trucks - Australian Mining
Automatic Cars - Google/Bosch/...
Hospitals - Atheon Tugs
What is ROS?
- One of many robot middlewares that emerged in the 2000's
- ROS, MS Robotics Studio, OROCOS, MOOS, OPROS...
- 2007 - emerged from Stanford.
- 2008 - migrated to Willow Garage.
- 2012 - migrated to the Open Source Robotics Foundation.
- Not owned by a company.
- Not dependent on a university and it's funding imperatives.
Again, what is ROS?
- Build tools (cmake/python based)
- Message protocol architecture
- Multi-language communication libraries
- Build farm for thousands of open source packages
- Installation/deployment tools
- Visualisation & debugging software
- Robotic drivers
- Algorithms
- Strong community support
No, really, what is ROS?
A robot is a complicated morass of sensors, drivers, pipelines...what if everyone did their own thing their own way?
IBM compatible PC for hardware, html browsers for the web, android for phones
Why ROS?
Lots of others in the past, so why ROS?
- Very freeform
- Focused on just helping people do their job
- Lets you scale what you do, fast
- Driven by the world's best reference service robot, pr2
Robotics Teams
Almost always have to become multi-skilled
Hard to get experts in various areas (money/above), but these are starting to filter in
We've had a stage theatre actor, bank businessman, mathematician, space agency programmer
Flip side of being an immature field, often doing it for the love of it, not the money
Robotics People
but they're still idiots! :)
Robotics Product
It's a long time getting to something real
It's surprising how many research-like problems there are along the way.
Do You Have What it Takes?
Why I Like It
It does it all:
Idea + Implementation + Product
New technology every day, every year
Hundreds of open doorways to explore
Forging a New Business
Yujin Innovation
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