Robots powered by ROS with Kat Scott, Developer Advocate, Open Robotics

Robots come in many shapes and sizes and can operate in a diverse set of environments. Building sturdy, general-purpose robot software is complicated. The Robot Operating System (ROS) is an open-source software development kit that helps you build robot applications. ROS has what you need for your next robotics project, from drivers to state-of-the-art algorithms and powerful developer tools. ROS has experienced incredible adoption in a large variety of robotics applications - from autonomous vacuum cleaners to industrial robots and autonomous vehicles.

We'll be hosting Katherine (Kat) Scott, Developer Advocate at Open Robotics for this meetup. Kat's a software and hardware developer from San Francisco whose work focuses on computer vision, robotics, and manufacturing. Katherine is the author of Practical Computer Vision with SimpleCV and is the co-founder of Tempo Automation and Sight Machine.

Open Robotics works with industry, academia, and government to create and support open software and hardware for robotics, from research and education to product development. They develop and maintain the core of the Robot Operating System (ROS) and Gazebo, a 3D multi-robot simulator. Powered by the support of a global community, these tools are relied upon by hundreds of thousands of users and developers working with every type of robot imaginable.