[ROS] AWS RoboMaker and ROS General Discussion

[Jim]

I stumbled upon RoboMaker on AWS today. Well, a friend sent it to me.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/robomaker/latest/dg/what-is-robomaker.htmlhttps://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-robomaker-develop-test-deploy-and-manage-intelligent-robotics-apps/

I need to check out what it actually entails, but it seems to fit the cloud services scenario you are talking about. It is using ROS (Robot Operating System, so I have no clue whether it can be used for LEGO robots. But it might be an interesting read.

Your code can make use of AWS services such as Amazon Lex, Polly, Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Kinesis Video Streams, and Amazon CloudWatch to build a sophisticated robot brain, accessible as a set of packages for ROS (Robotic Operating System). You can also build and train Amazon SageMaker models in order to make use of Machine Learning in your robot brain.

[MajorAlvega]

ROS keeps appearing on my checklist, I guess one of these days I'll have to try it.

There is some work with ROS and ev3dev: http://wiki.ros.org/Robots/EV3

For professional reasons I'm much more biased to Google API than AWS or Azure but hey, why not?

[Jim]

Sweet! I knew there had to be a connection to ev3dev somewhere 

 

6 minutes ago, MajorAlvega said:

For professional reasons I'm much more biased to Google API than AWS or Azure but hey, why not?

This is what I had with .NET and Java versus Python. And you know how that ended hehe.

Looks like something we can give a go together. I have invited my buddy to this forum as well and he knows a lot about AWS.

[Andrew Page]

I was at AWS re:invent this year, and spoke to the team.  The told me LEGO was on their roadmap, so I'll keep watching.

[Jim]

On 12/4/2018 at 3:48 PM, Andrew Page said:

I was at AWS re:invent this year, and spoke to the team.  The told me LEGO was on their roadmap, so I'll keep watching.

Nice!!