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I gave another talk about cloud robotics at Devoxx 2012 in Antwerp last month. This talk is Java developer focused and goes into more detail about ROS than the one at Berkeley. It also has more cool robot videos and a fun maze-solving-robot demo :) I really liked the venue. Giving a presentation in front of a huge movie screen like that was pretty great. The slides are available as a PDF.

I gave a talk about cloud robotics this week at the Berkeley Par Lab . I met a lot of people doing interesting research and I had the opportunity to play with a Raven surgical robot ! Thanks for inviting me, I really enjoyed it! A world filled with personal robots is inevitable but a lack of strong software infrastructure to support those robots is slowing progress. By offloading CPU and data intensive computation to the cloud, we can make robots lighter, cheaper, and smarter. The same developers that work on commodity web and mobile apps today can accelerate the pace of robotics research and development if we make high functioning robots affordable and universally accessible.

I just got back from my trip to the inaugural ROSCon. Putting faces to names within the ROS community was a great experience. Beyond that, many of the sponsors brought in some hardware to play with! My rosjava talk was well attended and the video is now up on YouTube. It's aimed at developers who are already familiar with both ROS and Java. After just a single year since its release, I was pleasantly surprised by the number of awesome projects using rosjava. With a 1.0 release of rosjava nearing, it is becoming easier to use. I hope that improves traction and I can't wait to see what people start doing with it this year.