This letter reviews the source code published with the papers of a flagship robotics research
conference, 2017 International Conference on Robotics and Automation. The aim is to …

As we are witnessing the dawn of the artificial intelligence revolution, it is a good time to
discuss the system-architecture challenges of the new age of robotics. Most of the disputes …

Service robots perform flawless demos while their developers are keeping a close eye, but
they often fail when working autonomously, especially in a long-term deployment. To study …

Building datasets for autonomous vehicles has become an essential element of robotics
research. Numerous datasets were published, pushing the state-of-the-art forward. This …

Human-centered robotic applications are becoming pervasive in the context of robotics and
smart manufacturing, and such a pervasiveness is even more expected with the shift to …

Container-based architectures are widely used for cloud computing and can have an
important role in the implementation of fog computing infrastructures. However, there are …

With the ability to use containers at the edge, they pose a unified solution to combat the
complexity of distributed multi-host ROS deployments, as well as individual ROS-node and …

The success of the Robot Operating System (ROS) and the advance of open source ideas
have radically changed and improved the experience of sharing software among members …

There are significant difficulties in deploying and reusing application code within the robotics
community. Container technology proves to be a viable solution for such problems, as …

The multidisciplinarity of robotics creates a need for robust integration methodologies that
can facilitate the adoption of state-of-the-art research components in an industrial …