Robots are now becoming prevalent in our lives, helping us carry out tedious housework, distribute warehouse inventory, automate manufacturing, and research lunar landscapes. But these applications demand a high level of intelligence and autonomy. Until now, developing, testing, and deploying intelligent robotics applications was difficult and time consuming. AWS RoboMaker is a new cloud robotics service that makes it easy for developers to develop, test, and deploy robotics applications and build intelligent robotics functions using cloud services. In this session we dive into how customers are using AWS RoboMaker to accelerate development timelines and build innovative robotics solutions.

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Developing intelligent robots with
AWS RoboMaker
Roger S. Barga
GM, AWS Robotics
S V C 2 0 7

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Agenda
Robotics landscape & trends
Robotics development & ROS
Intro to AWS RoboMaker
Customer stories
Features & benefits

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Robotics trends
Robotics is undergoing a fundamental
change in collaboration, autonomous
mobility, and increasing intelligence
Source: IDTechEx
• Logistics
• Construction
• Retail
• Hospitality
• Healthcare
Robots are being put to work every day
across many industries
• Agriculture
• Energy Management
• Oil and Gas
• Facilities Management
• Household chores
By 2023, it’s estimated that mobile autonomousrobots will emerge as
the standardfor logistic and fulfillment processes
By 2030, 70% of all mobile material
handlingequipment will be autonomous

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Mobile robotics
We are at the beginning of a turning point,
where expected growth in the use of mobile
robots will increase by almost tenfold over
the next 2–3 years, but …

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The future
In one chart

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Enabling technologies are here
Sensors
Intel RealSense, FaceID, Velodyne,
Quanergy, etc.
Arms
Universal Robotics, Rethink, Franka
Emika, ABB, Kuna, etc.
Grippers
Soft Robotics, RightHand, GrabIt,
Shadow, etc.
Mobility
Agility Robotics, GreyOrange,
Boston Dynamics, etc.
Motors
Livedrive, Inception Drive,
Automata, etc.
AI Coprocessors
Graphcore, NVIDIA, TPU, Cerebras,
etc.

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and yet...

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Factories in 1900

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Factories today

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If demand is high and hardware is cheap,
why doesn’t everyone automate?

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Cost breakdown of a robotic work cell

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Robotic development is difficult and
time consuming
Requires machine learning expertise for
intelligent functions
Many prototyping iterations Days spent setting
up and configuring
Months to building a realistic simulation
environment
Duplicated efforts integrating an
application managementsystem

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Robotic application development cycle

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Most widely used software framework for teaching and learning about robotics—over 16 million .deb (Linux Debian) packages
downloaded in 2018, a 400%increase since 2014
Founded in Stanford labs over 10 year ago, now managedby the Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF)
Global open-source community supports two products: Robot Operating System (ROS) and Gazebo
ROS
A set of software libraries and tools, from drivers to algorithms,
that help developers build robot applications
Gazebo
Robust physics engine, high-quality graphics, and programmatic
and graphical interfaces to help developers simulaterobots
Robot Operating System (ROS) primer

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ROS
History: 10+ years of development

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ROS
Adoption in companies & government agencies

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ROS
Commercial products and services

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ROS
ROS 2 technical steering committee

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Introducing AWS RoboMaker
A service that makes it easy for
developers to develop, test, and
deploy robotics applications, as
well as build intelligent robotics
functions using cloud services

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AWS RoboMaker service suite
Development environment SimulationCloud extensions for ROS Fleet
management

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Benefits of AWS RoboMaker
Accelerated
development timelines
Intelligence
out of the box
Zero infrastructure
provisioning
Lifecycle
management

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AWS RoboMaker
Development environment
❖ Start application development with zero setup effort
❖ Create a RoboMaker development environment with a
single click of a button
❖ Includes pre-installed RoboMaker cloud extensions
and sample robotics applications
❖ Automatic download, compile and configuration of
operating system, development software, and ROS

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sim_ws
robot_ws
Develop Build Bundle Simulate
ROS AWS
extensions
S3 bucket
Robot
application
Simulation
application
AWS RoboMaker
Development environment

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AWS RoboMaker
Cloud Extensions for ROS
Cloud extensions written as ROS packages automatically create connections and make API
calls to AWS services, such as Amazon Lex, Amazon Polly, Amazon Kinesis Video Streams,
Amazon Rekognition, and Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon Lex
Speech
recognition
Amazon
Polly Speech
generation
Amazon
Kinesis Video
Streams Video
streams
Amazon
Rekognition
Imageand video
analysis
CloudWatch
Logging and monitoring

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ROL

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Cloud-powered future
AWS RoboMaker: Simulations and parameter tuning
RoboMaker-Kinesis: Real-time data streaming
RoboMaker-Lex-Polly: Enhanced interactivity
EC2/S3: Remote portal and deployment

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ROS nodes
and topics
AWS Cloud
Node logic
Temporary
security
credential
Stored
credential
Robot
or
AWS RoboMaker
CloudWatch extension for ROS

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AWS RoboMaker
Simulation
❖ Pre-built virtual 3D worlds provided out of box, or bring
your own
❖ Zero infrastructure to provision, configure, or manage
❖ Run multiple simulations in parallel
❖ Automatically scales based on simulation complexity
❖ Pay-as-you-go simulation resource consumption

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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
CloudWatch
Metrics
AWS RoboMaker
Simulation

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Robot app
Simulation
Sim_World
#1
Robot app Sim_World
#2
Robot app Sim_World
#n
+
+
+
Logs
Log files #1
Log files #2
Log files #n
Aggregated metrics
AWS RoboMaker
Simulation

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Robotic reality capture
Emerging focus in construction applications
BricklayingDrilling
Tiling
Pre-fab construction
Concrete finishing
Site Survey/
Reality Capture
Demolition
Create a digital model
representinga construction
site and compare design vs.
as-built for deviations

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AWS RoboMaker
Fleet management
❖ Integrated with AWS IoT Greengrass
❖ Built-in robot registry, security, and fault-tolerance
❖ Deploy robotics application over-the-air with just a
few clicks on the AWS Management Console

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Concurrent
deployment 20%
Failure threshold 15%
Deployment job (10 robots)
Failure
threshold 15%
AWS RoboMaker
Fleet management

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AWS RoboMaker
Pricing structure
❖ Cloud extensions for ROS: Standard AWS service charge when the application
utilizes an AWS service through a cloud extension.
❖ Development environment: Customers pay only for underlying compute and
storage resources (e.g., EC2 instance and EBS volume).
❖ Simulation: Pricing is based on resource consumption, measured as “Simulation
Units,” metered at minute granularity. Each unit is composed of 1 vCPU and 2-
GB RAM and charged at $0.4 per hour.
❖ Fleet management: Customers pay for AWS IoT Greengrass resources at the
standard price of $0.16 per active robot (device) per month.

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AWS RoboMaker
Sample robot applications
Hello world Navigationand
person
recognition
Voice
commands
Robot
monitoring
Object-following
using RL
Self-driving using
RL

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Designed by developers, for developers
Application
developer
Testing
Development iteration
Quality
engineer
Regressiontesting
Metric monitoring
System
engineer
Deploy applications
Software updates
Researchers,
hobbyists,
students
Curriculum development
R&D

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Developers
AWS Cloud
AWS RoboMaker
Cloud interaction
Physical interaction
Physical
robot
Virtual
robot
Cloud robotics

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Customers

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Education and research partners

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