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Congrats on the launch! The constraint of a ~60W compute budget for fully onboard autonomy in a GPS-denied environment is impressive, I'm curious about the 'feature-poor' aspect you mentioned. Warehouses are notorious for having repetitive scenery which usually hard for visual SLAM regarding loop closures. How do you prevent the drone from getting lost when aisle 4 looks exactly like aisle 40? Best of luck!

The whole ROS ecosystem is huge, most of research platform robots are ROS enabled. Check the PR2 (http://wiki.ros.org/Robots/PR2), Turtlebot (https://www.turtlebot.com/), the Nao series (http://wiki.ros.org/nao), even Boston Dynamic's Atlas robot (http://gazebosim.org/tutorials?tut=drcsim_atlas_siminterface...) or Nasa's Robonaut (http://wiki.ros.org/Robots/Robonaut2).

It facilitates work by not having to rewrite a bunch of code every time. Also, most robotic related libraries like OMP, or TF are supported.

I guess the components. I think the sold the machine at a loss and maybe you could make some profit reselling some components, yet I am not quite sure.

Hi there, I applied and got a call, all good, then they said they will schedule a coding interview but no reply until now. Any ideas? I mean I would get it if I don't get contacted after the call, but saying that you will schedule a coding interview and then disappearing sounds a bit weird.

I was working with a company that sub contracted work from the US, the average pay was reasonable for the living standar but they were charging 2x to 4x more to the companies in US, thus making huge profit out of us. I felt bad for a while and left because other factors, it would be nice to have something written from that point of view.

Welp, I used to get books, papers and software from non-legal sources when I was in undegrad, because I just couldn't afford it, now that I make some money I buy most of this stuff. The thing is, without all those resources in the past I couldn't have made it to where I am now. Just my 2 cents.

Hi there Chris, I am a robotics engineer doing graduate studies, they aren't any possitions open for an intership in that area in the page, any idea if one will be open soon? Best regards