Join technical experts from across the robotics industry for a complimentary educational event. We’ve designed our program to help you learn best practices and the latest technology for robotics application development. Check out sessions hosted by AWS Robotics engineers and solutions architects with guest speakers from the Open Robotics, ROS-Industrial Consortium, iRobot, and Labrador Robotics.
The role of cloud and open source software in the future of robotics
In this session, Roger Barga, GM for AWS Robotics, and Brian Gerkey, co-founder of Open Robotics will walk you through the latest in cloud robotics and open source development, including insight into the Robot Operating System (ROS)/Gazebo Ignition release roadmap. The speakers will discuss the value of using the cloud, open source frameworks, and simulation to help builders increase development velocity, test more accurately, and get robots to market faster.
Simplifying simulation worlds creation for Gazebo with AWS RoboMaker WorldForge
Simulation testing can help make robotics development faster, safer, and higher-quality. Building virtual worlds is required to test robotics applications in simulation, and the process can require months of time and substantial expense for robotics companies. In this session, we will walk you through how to use AWS RoboMaker WorldForge to simplify the process of getting a Gazebo-based simulation world up and running. Attend this session to learn how you can accelerate world creation, so you can shift more testing to simulation environments to increase your testing velocity, and expand your test coverage to improve your robotics application quality.
ROS 2 Foxy: Production robotics using open source software
RoboMaker enables cloud based development, simulation, and deployment of ROS based robot applications. Recently, ROS 2 Foxy Fitzroy was released, the first major stable release of ROS 2. ROS 2 was built from the ground up for performance, security, and reliability. These features, along with ROS’s massive ecosystem of hardware and software packages make it a great choice for commercial robotic applications. This talk will cover the core capabilities of ROS 1 and 2 and the value of the ROS open source ecosystem. Specifically, we'll give a high-level history of ROS and discuss how that history has shaped ROS's architecture. We'll also cover the community resources available to help developers accelerate robotic application development.
Common simulation use cases and patterns with AWS RoboMaker
In this session, we will introduce how to use AWS RoboMaker for simulation tests, particularly for fleet simulations with multiple robots. We will deep dive into how RoboMaker simulations work and how to run complex, horizontally scalable simulations. With this approach, customers are able to parameterize and test ROS applications with complex robot interaction scenarios. We will also show how you can automate these robot interaction test cases, and run simulations within a continuous integration (CI) pipeline.
The hardening of ROS 2 for industrial robotics applications: Key technology & impact
In industries like Aerospace and Excavator Machinery, large systems are required to automate manufacturing processes like painting, surface-finishing, inspection, and more. The sheer size and cost of the system requires these systems to perform not one operation, but multiple operations, to improve the return on investment. Automating these operations has several challenges related to motion planning, calibration, environment management, user-interface and monitoring. In this session, we will share how to leverage ROS and ROS 2 to solve these challenges and implement complex automation systems for large-scale manufacturing process.
Lessons from the front line: How iRobot builds, tests, and manages millions of robots
iRobot manages an active fleet of over 5 million robots. In this session, Mark Sedran, Manager of Simulator Software Engineering, will share the challenges of scaling robotics development. He will discuss how iRobot has optimized their testing workflow to quickly deploy software updates to a complex code base, shared across multiple robots types with AWS RoboMaker. Additionally, Mark will show how iRobot has used cloud-based simulation alongside physical testing to advance new product development, increase testing coverage, and improve the usability of their product.
Pushing atoms with voice: The tools enabling a new generation of assistive robotics
Labrador Systems is developing a new category of affordable personal service robots to help people live more independently. To achieve this goal, the company is leveraging a range of AWS services, ROS modules and 3rd party solutions. In this session, you'll get a behind-the-scenes look at how these technologies work together from the Edge to the Cloud and back so that their robot can physically bring critical items within reach of individuals in everyday settings.
Workshop: Simulation and testing robots using AWS RoboMaker
In this workshop, we will deep dive into how AWS RoboMaker simulation works and discuss common test cases robotics companies use to ensure their code is production ready. In the first half of the workshop, you will place a robot in a small warehouse world and learn how to run simulations in AWS RoboMaker. In the second half, you will implement a test case in a robot application to validate the expected outcome from the robot. Instructions for the workshop that accompany the video below can be found here.