Accelerating Industrial Workflows with Open Source

25/01/2022 1h 27min

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In this episode, Audrow Nash speaks to Matt Robinson, Program Manager for ROS–Industrial Americas at the Southwest Research Institute. ROS Industrial is a group that seeks to help industrial users, for example factories, leverage ROS and its ecosystem. In this conversation, they talk about Matt’s background, the need for the ROS–Industrial group and what problems they’re working to solve, ROS–Industrial’s consortium, and ROS–Industrial’s new working group.If you’re enjoying the podcast, please consider donating to help us keep it going:https://donorbox.org/sense–think–act–podcastEPISODE LINKS:– ROS–Industrial: https://rosindustrial.org/}– ROS–Industrial’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/rosindustrial}– ROS–Industrial’s Discourse: https://discourse.ros.org/c/ros–industrial/39}– Southwest Research Institute: https://www.swri.org/}PODCAST INFO:– Podcast website: https://sensethinkact.com}– Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sense–think–act/id1582090036}– Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/52wK4oMDvgijRk6E82tC5d}– RSS: https://sensethinkact.com/itunes.xml}– Full episodes: https://www.youtube.com/c/SenseThinkActPodcast}– Clips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChfnCpNwZzYtZ32J–pZvNDg}OUTLINE:– (0:00:00) Start– (0:00:56) Introducing Matt and ROS–Industrial– (0:05:17) Motivation in forming ROS–Industrial– (0:11:06) Matt’s background– (0:19:10) Getting introduced to ROS– (0:24:33) Collaboration before Git– (0:32:21) Getting to the Southwest Research Institute– (0:35:37) Lowering the barrier to entry– (0:45:41) Overview of SWRI– (0:51:09) ROS–Industrial’s consortium– (1:02:23) Just in time manufacturing– (1:06:37) ROS–Industrial’s new working group– (1:17:03) ROS–Industrial’s conferences– (1:25:08) Links to shareSOCIAL:– Twitter: https://twitter.com/sense_think_act}– Discourse: https://discourse.ros.org/c/sensethinkact/71}

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