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• Learn how to use the Robot Operating System in this introduction ROS 2 for hobbyists and engineers.
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You’ve been hired to work on a large humanoid robot along with a dozen other engineers. Your job is to develop the arms and hands: moving them to specific locations, picking up objects, shaking human hands, and so on. You do not have direct sensor input, as that’s another engineer’s job. You also need to work with the locomotion team, as the arms need to move to help balance the robot. Everyone meets one day to figure out how all this will work together.
In the conference room, on a giant whiteboard, you map out all the components and how they’ll interact. You need the cameras and motion sensors in the head to send raw data to the main processing core,