If you watched The Jetsons as a child, you probably marveled at the idea of robots doing your chores. Although we might not yet have anything like Rosie the Robot wheeling around our homes, robots have in fact become a part of daily life. But until now, robotics development has not been very accessible outside of specialized environments. In this session, learn how to build robotics applications with AWS RoboMaker. This session covers the Robot Operating System (ROS) and Gazebo, building and deploying a robotics app, and launching simulations to generate the 3-D artificial world in which your robot will move.

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Getting started with robots &
AWS RoboMaker
Alejandra Olvera-Novack
Technical Evangelist
AWS Developer Relations
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• Who is using AWS RoboMaker?
• Robotics before the cloud
• What is AWS RoboMaker?
• What other AWS services can I pair with AWS RoboMaker?
• Is robotics development accessible for anyone to pick up?
• How is AWS contributing to universities and high schools to make STEM
education more visually appealing?
• Demo time! Let’s make our robot move
Agenda

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AWS RoboMaker customers

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“...We have used AWS RoboMaker cloud extensions for
ROS to enhance Lea with voice interaction capabilities
using services like Amazon Lex and Amazon Polly...”
—Dimitrios Chronopoulos
Lead Mobility Engineer
Robot Care Systems

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How does moving to the cloud impact the future
of robotics?
Fewer barriers to entry
• Prices for robotics development are dropping
• Hardware is becoming smaller and faster

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“There are applications where doing work in the cloud, combined with
something running on the device, is actually the best way to do something. So,
making use of the cloud in a more opportune way results in lower costs and
faster hardware.”
—Mike Bell, Executive VP of Devices and IoT at Canonical/Ubuntu

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AWS RoboMaker service suite
Development
environment
SimulationCloud extensions
for ROS
Fleet
management
Fleet
Robot Robot Robot
AWS RoboMaker is a service that makes it easy to
develop, test, and deploy intelligent robotics applications
at scale

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• Many-to-many publish subscribe framework
• Open-source, BSD
• Largest ecosystem of packages and tools
• Largest active developer community
• Used in both research and commercial applications
Robot Operating System

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Robot Operating System 2
• Designed specifically for commercial applications with reliability, security,
and consistency in mind
• Middleware interface based on DDS (Data Distribution Service)
• Industry support – Amazon, Intel, Bosch, Microsoft, LG Electronics, Toyota
Research Institute, etc.

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What can I do with the ROS?

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Simulation with Gazebo

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Cloud extensions for the ROS
Amazon Lex Amazon
Polly
Amazon
Kinesis Video
Streams
Amazon
Rekognition
Amazon
CloudWatch
Speech
recognition
Speech
generation
Video
streaming
Image and
video
analysis
Logging and
monitoring

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Sample robot applications
Hello
world
Navigation
and person
recognition
Voice
commands
Robot
monitoring
Self-driving with
reinforcement
learning

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AWS RoboMaker education program

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AWS RoboMaker academic program
• Now part of AWS Educate
• Connected with 46 K12 and higher education programs
• 38 AWS RoboMaker classrooms have been launched
• Collaborated with robot maker Husarion to integrate AWS RoboMaker
documentation into classroom tutorials
• Is investing in the students by donating 11 Husarion ROSbots for hands-on
experimentation

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Join AWS Educate today!
https://aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate
Want to dive deeper?

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It is now!
With AWS RoboMaker, the
developer experience is
smoother because of tools like
AWS Cloud9 and our simplified
CLI

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AWS RoboMaker development
environment
Robot appSim app
Simulation
Amazon S3 bucket
sim_ws
robot_ws
ROS Cloud extensions
for ROS
Develop Build Bundle Simulate
Development environment

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Robot appSim app
Applications
S3 bucket
Simulation
Gazebo
client
Simulation
instance
Logs
S3 bucket
Robot logs Simulation
logs
rqt
rviz
Terminal
Cloud
extensions
for ROS
VPC
RuleAlarm
Metrics
Amazon CloudWatch
Simulation

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You can find more information about Gazebo, rqt, and rviz at wiki.ros.org
Check out our AWS RoboMaker documentation at
https://aws.amazon.com/robomaker/
Want to dive deeper?

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Email us!
AWS-RoboMaker-interest@amazon.com
Questions? Ideas?

34. Thank you!
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Alejandra Olvera-Novack
@QuetzalliAle