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My background is as a professional software engineer, who switched careers late to academia where I taught computer science and software engineering for years. Over time I got involved with Robotics, teaching it, learning with students, and spending a lot of my personal time learning more and more.
I live in Boston. I belong to a super-smart ROS users group in California. They are a wonderful bunch of hands on experimenters with all kinds of robots. Most of us are doing it as a hobby/obsession. We have a very active mailing list, and regular meetings.
I am looking to join or organize something similar in the Boston area so the members can be in the Boston timezone.
Any leads for existing groups? Any interest in joining one?
Hi Pito,
Thanks for your message. I have background in Robotics, Computer Vision, DL. I am near the Boston area too. Although, I am not aware about any groups currently, but willing to be a part of the group/ helping you create one. Have a nice weekend!
I’m also in the Boston area and would be an interested participant.
I only am aware of a few socially-oriented robotics groups (board games and happy hour), which have not really been active so far this year, but do exist.
More on the technical side (e.g. a ROS users meetup), it may require creating a group and publicizing it. Happy to help promote it, but I don’t have a lot of free time to help manage.
We have many roboticists in Boston, and I am from Northeastern University! I have no idea on any existing group here but I’d be happy to join and manage the group.
Hi Pito,
I’m a Software Engineer working with Industrial automation and robotics, mostly with delta robots and unfortunately there is no ROS application in the company I work with. I’m also a student of MS- Computer Science and using ROS to learn more and more … I would be glad to join the group.
I, too, am in the Boston area and would be interested in attending a local meetup. My office is in Westford,MA, and I can offer to host a meeting if people are interested.
Thanks everyone for your responses! I will send out a google survey to see what people’s interests are and we can decide with a core group of “founders” what we want this group to be about. I am going to wait a few more days to see if more folks show an interest.
Hi, we have a robotics startup in Central Square in Cambridge, and we’d be happy to provide a venue to host a monthly ROS meetup. We’ll need others to help manage the group though.
Once you have a time and location locked in please let me know. I can help make the broader ROS community aware of your event. I am also happy to give logistics support / advice / introductions if you need them.
I am probably retired after 45 years in computer science but hoping to develop hobby robots. Currently the entry into ROS2 mobile robot development is rather steep and a group like this could be a real help. I can’t even find a definitive chart showing which SBC systems are actually able to run ROS2.
Ok, I think we have a minimal critical mass! I realize that I don’t have your emails! Please show your interest by answering a few questions which will allow me to organize an initial mailing list and zoom call.