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This episode is about understanding why you can’t build your startup alone, and some criteria to properly select your co-founders. In this podcast series of episodes we are going to explain how to create a robotics startup step by step. We are going to learn how to select your co-founders, your team, how to look […] The post 91. How to build a robotics startup: getting the team right appeared first on The Construct.

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 roboticist. He wanted to interview Ricardo in order to introduce ROS to his audience, and let them know of the importance of it […] The post 90. Sina Interviews Ricardo About Basic Concepts of ROS appeared first on The Construct.

In this podcast series of episodes we are going to explain how to create a robotics startup step by step. We are going to learn how to select your co-founders, your team, how to look for investors, how to test your ideas, how to get customers, how to reach your market, how to build your […] The post 89. How to build a robotics startup: the product idea appeared first on The Construct.

I would like to dedicate this episode to all the ROS Developers that are helping to build ROS a better framework. Not only the ones that are using ROS but the ones that are developing new packages, maintaining existing ones and adding new drivers and dependencies for new robots. If you are one of the […] The post 88. It takes a village to build a ROS robot with Sophia Kolak appeared first on The Construct.

I would like to dedicate this episode to all the ROS Developers that are using an embedded computer to control their ROS robot. Today we are going to learn how we can optimize the Linux distribution for embedded computers and how we can use that with ROS. But before going into that, let me remind […] The post 87. Optimized embedded Linux for ROS with Raul Muñoz appeared first on The Construct.

I would like to dedicate this episode to all the ROS Developers that are doing research on reinforcement learning applied to robotics. That is a difficult subject for which there is not much about it, specially with ROS. There are some works using other frameworks and simulators but not many that use ROS as their […] The post 86. Reproducing Robotic Simulations for Reinforcement Learning with Gym-Ignition appeared first on The Construct.

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. But before going into that, let me remind you about our ROS online academy. Yes, at the Construct we have created an online academy named The Robot Ignite Academy […] The post 85. ROS2 Control with Bence Magyar appeared first on The Construct.

This episode is dedicated to all those pioneers that are building industrial applications with ROS2. That is a tough position to be because there is a lot of uncharted territory. It is very hard to get results. That is for the really brave ROS Developers. You are making ROS2 a reality in industry. Thank you […] The post 84. Hybrid ROS1 ROS2 Industrial applications appeared first on The Construct.

This episode is dedicated to all those people that building humanoid robots with ROS and need extra care in their control algorithms (otherwise the robot falls down) Today we have a super very special guest with who we are going to talk about how achieve real time control under ROS. But before going into that, […] The post 83. Real Time Control in ROS with Luca Marchionni appeared first on The Construct.

Today we are going to talk about robots that exist running ROS2 as well as sensors that have ROS2 drivers available. But before going into that, let me remind you about our ROS online academy. Yes, at the Construct we have created an online academy named The Robot Ignite Academy which contains a ROS learning […] The post 82. Available ROS2 Hardware appeared first on The Construct.

Today, I would like to dedicate the episode to all those ROS developers that are considering moving into ROS2. I know, we are very comfortable with ROS 1 because we already know how it works, and we have a big base of code created to support our future developments. ROS2 is a little bit more […] The post ROS2 DDS Fast RTPS with Jaime Martin Losa appeared first on The Construct.

 This is the first podcast episode of the year 2020. Also, we are celebrating that we have been here with you for 2 years. Yes, we are entering into the 3rd season of the podcast. That is why today, I would like to dedicate the episode to all the listeners of this podcast. It […] The post The ROS Developers Podcast 2019 Yearly Review appeared first on The Construct.