Special Interest Group in Interoperability

[marcogg]

Hi there folks!

As more and more interest and needs are raised around robot interoperability we have made efforts towards kicking off a special interest group in other to gather all parties and find forms of collaboration.

The first OSRF Special Interest Group in Interoperability will be held on 2023-09-07T14:00:00Z in an effort to accommodate as many timezones as possible. Please join us at: meet.google.com/irh-yfdm-rju.

We would like to have some high level presentations from some of the key players on the topic, followed by some discussion and Q&A:

• OpenRMF (Confirmed)
• MassRobotics Interop (Confirmed)
• VDA5050 (TBC)

Note: if you are somehow involved on VDA 5050 and can spare some mins of presentation and answer some high level questions please drop me a message we are very interested on having you as part of this meeting.

See you all!

Marco.

[Char_bot]

Hi Marco - This sounds super interesting!

I work at Viam Robotics, we finally rolled out interoperability with ROS and wanted you all to be aware. Below you’ll find a few resources on how to augment your robotics stack with Viam:

• ros and robot data: https://www.viam.com/use-cases/ros-robot-data-ingestion
• ros and viam play together nicely: https://www.viam.com/post/extend-ros-with-viam
• viam has mobile and cloud-enabled connectivity built-in https://www.viam.com/post/ros-robots-mobile-pathway
  More to come!