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I would like to dedicate this episode to all the ROS developers out there who are considering a career in robotics. Are you worried about whether ROS is a valuable skill and if companies are actually looking for it? If so, this episode is for you!

This podcast explores real data to give you a clear picture of ROS job opportunities. We'll cover:

1. Degree requirements

2. Areas of specialization

3. Types of roles

4. Importance of prior experience

5. Skills in demand

Take informed steps to build a successful robotics career!

I would like to dedicate this episode to all the ROS developers out there who are thinking and worrying about the future of ROS. If you are worried about whether ROS will become irrelevant in the future or if all the companies building humanoid robots will replace ROS, then this episode is dedicated to you!

In this Podcast, we will delve into what the Open Source Robotics Alliance is.

Let me introduce you to Ryan Gariepy, who is the CTO of Clearpath Robotics and OTTO Motors. He is also the co-chair of the Canadian Robotics Council and a member of the Board of Directors of Open Robotics. Ryan is going to address all doubts regarding what the Open Source Robotics Alliance is.

Welcome to the podcast, Ryan!

I would like to dedicate this episode to all the ROS Developers who believe that ChatGPT or Compiler won't take our jobs but rather help us become more efficient and create better, faster, and more intelligent programs. If you share this perspective, this episode is dedicated to you!

In this episode, we will dive into Generative AI tools for robotics!

Now let's go to the meat of the episode.

Let me introduce you Tomoya Fujita. We had Tomoya already on the podcast talking about Kubernetes for ROS. But today, he is going to talk about something different. Tomoya is a Software Architect/Engineer at Sony RDC US Lab. He is a ROS expert and a member of the ROS TSC committee. Today, he came to talk about his latest development ros2ai.

Welcome to the podcast, Tomoya!

I would like to dedicate this episode to all the ROS developers who want to use large-scale realistic robotic simulations. If you are thinking of working in that direction, this podcast episode is dedicated to you!

Today we are going to talk a lot about simulation and how to do it with open-source code.

Now let me introduce you, Adam Dabrowski. Adam is the VP of Robotics and Simulation at Robotec.ai where he and his team have developed the robotics part of Open 3D Engine, an alternative to do realistic large-scale simulations in ROS 

Welcome to the podcast Adam!

I would like to dedicate this episode to all the ROS developers who are considering professional robots and applications design, beginning with simulations. Starting with simulations is crucial, even if your preference is to work with real robots, to avoid errors and save time. If this is what you think when you are developing robots, then this episode is dedicated to you!

Today, we are going to talk about simulations!

Let me introduce you to Buck Babich, a senior Robotics R&D manager at Nvidia. Buck is currently working on manipulation, planning control, and simulations. Today, he will be talking with us about simulations, particularly 'Isaac Sim', the simulator developed by Nvidia for robotics.

Welcome to the podcast, Buck!  

I would like to dedicate this episode to all the ROS developers who are thinking about using ROS for their Drones or may be trying to apply their path planning to drones. If you are thinking about using your favorite robot framework for drones, then this episode is dedicated to you!

Today, we will talk about Drones and ROS, delving into everything related to the world of drones with an expert. You can gain valuable insights for programming your drones.

Now let's go to the meat of the episode. Let me introduce you Kimberly McGuire. Kimberly is a robotics engineer at Bicraze where she develops the tools that connect the Crazyflie with the community of developers. She received her Ph.D. in 2019 with a thesis about "Swarm Exploration with Pocket Drones". 

Welcome to the podcast Kimberly!

I would like to dedicate this episode to all the ROS developers who have already switched to ROS2 to control their robots. 

Today we are going to talk about the ros2_control with one of the main developers and maintainers of the packages.

Now let's go to the meat of the episode. Let me introduce you Dr. Denis Stogl. Denis is the CEO and founder of Stogl Robotics a company for consulting about robotics. He is also one of the main maintainers of ros2_control.

I would like to dedicate this episode to all the ROS developers in Asia that are struggling to get their industrial robots with ROS. Do not be desperate. Keep pushing your ROS learning and application. There are a lot of people working hard to help you with that, for instance, the guys from ROS Industrial Asia-Pacific.

Now let's go to the meat of the episode. Let me introduce you Maria Vergo. Maria is the consortium manager of the ROS-Industrial consortium Asia-Pacific. She is going to explain to us what the ROS-Industrial consortium is about and what is its current state as well as how much robotics impacts Singapore

Welcome to the podcast Maria!

I would like to dedicate this episode to all the developers that are building and programming the robots that will go to space in the next missions.

I would like to dedicate this episode to all the ROS developers.

I would like to dedicate this episode to the people that use ROS to develop autonomous robots that (will) move around us in our streets, together with us, humans, doing some useful tasks.

Now let me introduce you Tomohiko Furutani. Tomohiko-san is the manager of the AI Robot development section of Softbank. Welcome to the podcast Tomohiko-san!  

I would like to dedicate this episode to people that are working to make robots more understandable by humans. People want people to interact seamlessly with robots. That robots understand us and that we understand robots.

I would like to dedicate this episode to all the developers working on making efficient warehouse robots using ROS ( ROS-based warehouse robot). If you are in that field, if you are trying to make the picking system easier for all the warehouses around the world, then this episode is dedicated to you.

Now let's go to the meat of the episode. Let me introduce you Gajamohan Mohanarajah. Gajan is the founder of Rapyuta robotics a company created in 2014 as an ETH spinoff focusing on cloud robotics. Welcome to the podcast Gaja!

I would like to dedicate this episode to all the developers working on using ROS for autonomous cars, then this episode is dedicated to you.

Now let's go to the meat of the episode. Let me introduce you Dr. Shimpei Kato. Shimpei is the founder of Tier IV as well as Chairman of the board of directors of the Autoware Foundation. Additionally, he is an associate professor of the University of Tokyo. 

Welcome to the podcast Shimpei!

I would like to dedicate this episode to all the ROSDevelopers out there that have started or are already progressed doing progressing in programming robots by using FPGA and accelerating hardware of any kind. So if you are any of those engineers or ROSDevelopers using accelerate hardware for your robot, then this episode is dedicated to you!

Now let me introduce you Giulio Corradi who is the principal architect industrial vision healthcare at AMD. Giulio, welcome to the Podcast!

I would like to dedicate this episode to the people that are developing space systems for the colonization of space, using ROS-based robots. If you are involved in this progress of humanity, this episode is dedicated to you.

Now let me introduce you Alex Sowell and Misha Savchenko. Alex and Misha work on the Dexterous Robotics Team at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Alex is is Technical Lead for Robotics at CACI International, and Misha is Software Lead at METECS. They both work together to build the next generation of robots for NASA.

I would like to dedicate this episode to the people that are working to create ROS-based robots to do all the most tedious tasks like ironing, cleaning… or refilling the paper at the WC when finished.

Now let me introduce you Dylan Terntzer the CEO and co-founder of Lionsbot. Welcome to the Podcast Dylan!

I would like to dedicate this episode to all the ROSDevelopers out there that have started or are already progressed doing progressing in programming robots by using FPGA and accelerating hardware of any kind. So if you are any of those engineers or ROSDevelopers using accelerate hardware for your robot, then this episode is dedicated to you!

Now let me introduce you Giulio Corradi who is the principal architect industrial vision healthcare at AMD. Giulio, welcome to the Podcast!

I would like to dedicate this episode to the people that build and maintain the core of ROS, that is the people of Open Robotics. But specifically, this episode is dedicated to the Open Robotics team in Singapore that is heavily working on the development of Open-RMF, the new kid in town. Thank you very much to Matthew, Yadu, Aaron, and Luca. Thanks for the time together at Singapore, especially during the quiz night where we almost hit 100% on the killing round.

Now let me introduce you Matthew Festo, who is the general manager of Open Robotics, Singapore. Matthew welcome to the Podcast!

I would like to dedicate this episode to people that are attending the ROS CON.

Now let me introduce you to Tomoya Fujita, Tomoya is a senior researcher of ROS and Cloud meeting software researcher at the SONY US Lab, where he works to develop ROS systems. Today he is going to explain everything about his project and his research development at the SONY US Lab. Welcome to the Podcast, Tomoya!

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 need it? How does it work? Those are some of the questions that Yadunund will explain to us during this interview.

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 also the eProsima membership at the OMG and the Technical Steering committee of ROS2 and he is the responsible of eProsima contribution to the DDS standards.

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 open source Carla projectat computer vision center.

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. Let's learn how ROS and Gazebo can help us to build the autonomous robots of the future!

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 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.

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 ROS based robot simulations.

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 importance of it when building robots.

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 for all ROS Developers.

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 today is because he is the main maintainer of the ROS control packages.

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 control for the human size humanoid robots built at Pal Robotics. For that he had to develop algorithms with real time control using ROS. Now Luca is the CTO of Pal Robotics and he is in charge of the technical vision of the company.

Shownotes here: https://www.theconstructsim.com/82-available-ros2-hardware

Get a list of available robots and sensors that already work with ROS2.