It also includes the parameters you can pass to those functions.
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But simply put in developer’s language, topics/services/messages are like the software functions you can call on a robot to get the data from the sensors and make the robot take actions. If you are not familiar with ROS, you may not understand what these terms mean. What is the robot’s ROS API? The ROS API is the list of ROS topics, services, action servers, and messages that a given robot is providing to give access its hardware, that is, sensors and actuators. By using the ROS API, you can forget about the hardware and just concentrate on the software that makes the robot do what you want. Thanks to the Robot Operating System (ROS), you can completely abstract the hardware from the software, so you can program a robot just by knowing the robot’s ROS API and test on a simulation. The good news is that getting developers into the field is easier than ever. That is why robotics could benefit so much from having lots of expert programmers entering the field. But let’s face it, most roboticists are not as good programmers as developers are. Perhaps some of the programmers are not directly involved in the creation of the robot, but they definitely have no problem getting into the hardware and trying to fix it when something goes wrong, in order to make their program work. Roboticists programming robots Due to that lack of software developers, robot programming is done by roboticists, which are the people that build the robots. After all, they decided to become developers of software, not hardware!! Fortunately, that hardware intraction is not required at present. That interaction with the hardware is something that many software developers don’t like. You probably think that hardware and software are so coupled in robots that you cannot touch one without touching the other. It is very likely that you are a developer and have never thought about entering into the robotics realm. You probably think that by programming for robots, you would need to know about electronics, and maybe even mechanics. Why are there not enough developers for robotics? In general, software developers do not like to deal with the hardware. So, your job can contribute to finally bringing robots to real life. The biggest limiting factor for having service robots is software. The hardware that allows a robot to clean your house already exists. What is especially interesting with service robots is that the key to having a useful robot is not the hardware, but the software. Society considers robots to be one of the coolest things in technology.
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These are companies that do not have robotics divisions, but are considering creating one, and cannot find properly trained people that know how to program robots. I know that because every week we get companies as clients of our academy ( Robot Ignite Academy) who want to start providing training to their engineers on how to program robots. Due to the increasing demand for robots, many companies are considering having a robotics division. I’m talking about service robots.Įven if the industrial and military robot sectors are growing, the one that is growing even faster is service robotics. I’m talking about robots that interact with humans and help them with their tasks.
Forecast of the robotics market in the world for the next years (source Statista) I’m not just talking about industrial robots, but also robots targeting commercial and consumer spaces.
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