In this episode, I interview Francisco Martin, associated professor at the University Juan Carlos I in Madrid, where he teaches robotics by using ROS. He is also a participant of the Robocup and the ROCKin competitions. He will explain how have they hacked Pepper the robot by means of using docker machines to cross-compile ROS code for Pepper. Francisco will also tell us about with research work on applying cognitive architectures to the control of robots, using ROS Plan inside Pepper to figure out the situation of the robot.

Selected quote to from the interview

For the next Robocup we are going to use ROS2 because it has realtime communication between components. Actually, for the next ROSCON we are planning to have everything in Pepper running with ROS2

Related links

• Francisco Martin homepage
• Francisco Martin twitter account
• Francisco Martin git
• Github of Esteve Fernandez with docker code to cross-compile ROS for Pepper
• ROSPlan
• ROS Naoqi interface
• ROS2
• Robocup competition
• ROCKin competition
• ROSCON conference
• Pepper Gazebo simulation
• Darknet and YOLO for ROS (neural networks for object detection)

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