Singapore Robot Operating System Meetup

Speaker: Luca Della Vedova
Topic: Open Vision Computer

The Open Vision Computer is a fully open source smart camera especially tailored for UAV applications and used in the past in the DARPA FLA program. The OVC 3 is the newest revision and includes three global shutter image sensors, two monochrome for stereo and one RGB for recognition, as well as an IMU and GPIO for expansion. It also runs Ubuntu 18.04 and ROS natively.

Speaker: Shalv Amit Parekh
Topic: Human-Robot Interaction

Human-robot interaction speculates the design of interactions that machines fronting human in the near future would have. It translates into the empathy and design requirements for future robots in accordance to our social norms and human behavior.

Photo: OSRF - https://osrf.github.io/ovc/