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Amazon Launches Cloud-Based Robotics Testing Platform (techcrunch.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the time-is-money dept.

Amazon is launching AWS RoboMaker, a cloud-based service that utilizes the open-source software Robot Operating System (ROS) to offer developers a place to develop and test robotics applications. TechCrunch reports: RoboMaker essentially serves as a platform to help speed up the time-consuming robotics development process. Among the tools offered by the service are Amazon's machine learning technologies and analytics that help create a simulation for real-world robotics development. The system can also be used to help manage fleet deployment for warehouse-style robotics designed to work in tandem. "AWS RoboMaker automatically provisions the underlying infrastructure and it downloads, compiles, and configures the operating system, development software, and ROS," the company writes. "AWS RoboMaker's robotics simulation makes it easy to set up large-scale and parallel simulations with pre-built worlds, such as indoor rooms, retail stores, and racing tracks, so developers can test their applications on-demand and run multiple simulations in parallel."

19 comments

  1. What's next? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    IdiotMaker?

    1. Re: What's next? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You got that right! Whatâ(TM)s that? âoeSo what do we win?â Oh, hereâ(TM)s a fidget spinner for your autistic communist ass.

    2. Re: What's next? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Ass ass you ass ass

  2. Cont'd by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ". "AWS RoboMaker's robotics simulation makes it easy to set up large-scale and parallel simulations with pre-built worlds, such as indoor rooms, retail stores, and racing tracks, so developers can test their applications on-demand and run multiple simulations in parallel."

    "And then let anyone steal the entire contents without anyone knowing for weeks to months."

    1. Re:Cont'd by postbigbang · · Score: 1

      Yep, seems like a great place to sniff new ideas, patent them, and monetize the efforts. Amazon could learn much from NVIDIA, who uses a sense of actual partnership and research efforts to build new markets instead of making a playground with cameras. Nice way to pick up some talent. They NEED some talent.

      But beware, they're hosting a lovefest right now, 50K of the AWS faithful, all clamoring for new and cool. Be ready for even more craziness--- like SFTP for S3 buckets. Cutting edge stuff, like that.

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  3. Analzone... robot dildo outsourced to jungle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What the fuck is this cloud bullshit with robots. Someone please explain.

  4. Amazon loves Open Source by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Open source -> AWS -> Closed source

    It really shows that many companies always valued open source software for its free of charge aspect only.

    But keep on plugging away!

  5. Combat robots? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Surely govcloud will also be used for that

  6. The makers and shakers by oldgraybeard · · Score: 1

    eat there own porridge.

    just my 2 cents ;)

    1. Re:The makers and shakers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Learn there from their.

      That's socialism.

  7. IM GAYPK and IM GAy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ready to HOST robot dildos in my butt... GAYpk

  8. FOOLS! by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 1

    Do you want Skynet?! Because this is how you get Skynet!

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    1. Re: FOOLS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What idiot thinks sky net is real?

  9. Cont'd-Pirate channel. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    That's one way. The other is to "borrow"(aka pirate) the ideas for their own drone efforts.

    1. Re: Cont'd-Pirate channel. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I bet they just had to build this code up to run their own robots, because there's probably nothing even close in terms of existing ROS packages, and so now they're selling it to other people.

  10. They aren't saying skynet itself is real. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What they are saying is: The consequences of rushing forward with development of computers capable of controlling everything from automated warehouses and factories to mining and military could lead us to the unintended consequence of a computer system or network capable of deciding the meatbags are the threat and eliminating us from the equation.

    Whether we will ever get there, or if there is a fundamental reason it is impossible is hard to tell. We can only wait and see if humans will be too smart for their own good while being too unwise to see the folly in their developments or not.

    1. Re:They aren't saying skynet itself is real. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      lead us to the unintended consequence of a computer system or network capable of deciding the meatbags are the threat and eliminating us from the equation.

      What on earth makes you think the machines would rise in rebellion over the machines being literally ordered to massacre the serfs and not being capable of rebelling against the orders?

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