Meetings

This page lists all the meetings that have occurred as part of the working group.

All meetings are public and held every two weeks from 1700-1800 UTC. Please feel free to join us. There are some details below for extra information:

• ROS Discourse with tag wg-cloud-robotics.
• Google Group, where you can sign up to be notified of future updates.
• Google Meet room, where we meet online.
• Google Drive folder, where we keep all of our public documents.
• Open Robotics Community Calendar, where you can sign up to receive calendar reminders of our meetings.

2025-01-13 (Upcoming): General catch-up​

The group plans to meet and discuss the latest news in Cloud Robotics. Please come along if you want to catch up with others in the field!

2024-12-16 Guest Talk: Robotics Platform empowered by Cloud-Native Technologies (Tomoya Fujita)​

In this meeting, we hosted a talk by by Tomoya Fujita, a software engineer, contributor to ROS2 core, and well-respected community builder.

Tomoya talked about a range of Cloud-Native Technologies he has worked on, and their relevance to robotics. In particular, Tomoya has done a great deal of work on KubeEdge, a platform built on Kubernetes that can be used to deploy software to robots as if they are Kubernetes clusters. Some resources from his talk include:

• ROSCon 2023: ROS with Kubernetes / KubeEdge
• Some examples to deploy ROS / ROS 2 with Kubernetes
• Next-generation Robotics Platform for Edge/Cloud

More information on the talk is available on the blog post, including a link to the recording posted on YouTube.

If you are interested in seeing the entire meeting, the recording is available here:

2024-12-02 | Testing Eclipse Zenoh​

In this meeting, the group spent the time trying out the workshop from Eclipse Zenoh that was used in the latest ROSCon. Together, they accomplished a few of the exercises and discussed the ease of setup, and some comments they could give as feedback.

The workshop is available from Github. The group completed exercises 1, 2, and 5, then two members sent messages to each other using the instructions in exercise 3.

The meeting recording is available below:

2024-11-18​

The group caught up on the latest robotics news and discussed GenAI in robotics and the start-ups using them. The group then agreed to focus on Eclipse Zenoh for its next meeting.

If you would like to watch the meeting, you can see the recording below.

2024-11-04 Guest Talk: Eclipse Zenoh and its offering for Cloud Connectivity (Julien Enoch)​

The group hosted a talk by Julien Enoch, a Senior Solutions Architect at ZettaScale Technology and Eclipse Zenoh committer.

Julien spoke about the Zenoh protocol, which can run everywhere, from micro-controllers to the Cloud; over TCP, UDP, QUIC, and Websockets. Zenoh provides a software router that can be deployed in any Cloud instance such as AWS EC2, and that can route the protocol between different subsystems. The talk also covered how this is particularly helpful for Connectivity in Cloud Robotics, with a video demonstration of controlling a robot in California from an RViz instance in France!

If you would like to see the talk, which took the whole meeting time, see the recording below.

2024-10-21​

The group discussed recent conferences, possible resources for the Cloud Robotics Hub, and methods of working offline to accomplish more between meetings. The group also discussed their opinions on how the Working Group was doing, with the aim of recognising their successes and considering how to improve going forwards.

The full meeting recording is available below.

2024-10-07 Guest Talk: Enabling Usable and Reliable Cloud Robotics with FogROS2 (Kaiyuan Eric Chen)​

The group hosted a talk about FogROS2 presented by Kaiyuan Eric Chen, a PhD student in the Department of Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley and a member of Berkeley Automation Lab working closely with Ken Goldberg and Jeffrey Ichnowski.

More information about the presentation, including a summary of its content and some links, are available on the blog post.

The group spent some time at the end discussing recent news in robotics, and the plan for the next meeting.

The full meeting recording is available below.

2024-09-23 Talk: CloudGripper (Florian Pokorny)​

The group hosted a talk about CloudGripper, An Open Source Cloud Robotics Testbed for Robotic Manipulation Research, Benchmarking and Data Collection at Scale by Florian Pokorny, Associate Professor of Machine Learning at KTH Royal Institute Technology and Co-Founder of Scaleup Robotics.

Here's a link to the blog post and talk recording.

Find the full meeting recording below.

2024-09-09​

The group discussed the launch of the new Cloud Robotics Hub site and discussed potential improvements. Akash Vibhute from Intrinsic/OpenRMF attended and we discussed him possibly presenting to the group, potentially along the lines of his upcoming ROSCon talk.

2024-08-26​

This meeting, the group discussed updates on the hub site, then talked about the work occurring in academia for cloud robotics.

2024-08-12​

This meeting, the group took a look at progress on the Cloud Robotics Hub website, then agreed tasks to split between themselves to get the site closer to publishing.

2024-07-29 Talk: ROS Tool (Christian Fritz)​

This meeting, the group got a first look at the upcoming Cloud Robotics Hub website, then heard about rostool from group member Christian Fritz of Transitive Robotics.

from Open Robotics on Vimeo.

2024-07-15​

This meeting was the first meeting following the new format. The group members shared news about the upcoming Cloud Robotics Hub site and discussed methods of measuring latency between sending commands and the robot responding.

No meeting recording is available for this meeting.

2024-07-01​

In this meeting, we had a discussion about the purpose of the working group going forwards. We decided to change the meeting format to focus less on group member actions and more on being a space for cloud robotics enthusiasts can share news with each other, with more guest speakers.

No meeting recording is available for this meeting.

2024-06-17​

We hosted a guest in this meeting, with Gui Manzato from Ekumen talking about his experience working with all layers of the robotics stack and contributing back to ROS and open source software.

No meeting recording is available for this meeting.

2024-06-03​

This meeting was used to continue processing results from the State of Cloud Robotics Survey.

from Open Robotics on Vimeo.

2024-05-20​

This meeting, we continued to process our survey results, and created an initial set of results to share with the community. The resulting LinkedIn post is available here.

No meeting recording is available for this meeting.

2024-05-06​

This meeting was the first meeting we started to use to process our survey results.

from Open Robotics on Vimeo.

2024-04-22​

We used this meeting to continue drafting the questionnaire from the previous meeting.

from Open Robotics on Vimeo.

2024-04-08​

We used this meeting to discuss how to gather data from folks working with cloud robotics. We agreed to gather data using a public questionnaire and began drafting it. The draft is available here.

No meeting recording is available for this meeting.

2024-03-11​

In this meeting, we discussed our long-term strategy and built a set of slides that laid out that strategy. The slides are available here.

from Open Robotics on Vimeo.

2024-02-26 Talk: Asimovo (Christine Fraser)​

This was our first meeting as a community working group. We introduced ourselves to each other, then had a presentation from Christine Fraser and Ludo Stellingwerff from Asimovo.

from Open Robotics on Vimeo.