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.

EPISODE 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/

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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 share

SOCIAL:
– Twitter: https://twitter.com/sense_think_act
– Discourse: https://discourse.ros.org/c/sensethinkact/71