[Announcement] Sony Robotics Solution (AMR/AGV) with ROS 2

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Hi ROS users,

We Sony would like to make an quick announcement that we has released our robotics solution for AMR.

AutonMate

Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) that assists with picking through collaboration with humans, aiming to reduce labor. AMRs, positioned as the next generation of Automatic Guided Vehicles (AGVs), can travel without guides and move autonomously while avoiding people and obstacles.

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Those robotics packages are already running in the market and actual workspace in Japan !!!

System Overview

The system is constructed with 2 components, the one is Fleet Management System and the other is Robot Navigation System.
All these proprietary system application are built on top of ROS 2 humble and Fast-DDS.

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The system does many things such as map creation, autonomous navigation and device management. Based on our experiences especially for edge IoT and embedded devices, we develop the stable and robust system for the robots.

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ROS Open Source Eco-System in Sony

Sony has been working to make a lot of contribution to the mainline based on the requirements from business logics, then we can use ROS as a user to the business applications. We really appreciate ROS community and ROS open source, and we will keep it up :rocket:

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If you are interested, please contact us.

thanks,
Tomoya

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A new robot from Sony? :smiley:

aibo

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More seriously: Congrats!

Also: is there more information on the fleet management system, with screenshots perhaps?

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@chfritz

thanks! and unfortunately no, that is proprietary system application, we do not disclose that part…

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Hi Tomoya,

Congratulations, and thanks a lot for the reference to Fast DDS.

Sony and eProsima have been collaborating for the past years, adding important features to ROS2 and Fast DDS (Shared Memory, Content Filter Topic), making it ready for production.

This is a really good example of a professional application of ROS2 and Fast DDS with many features: Fleet management, wireless communications, large data, robot discovery, autonomous navigation, and more.

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