Future of ROS-I – hardware support, capabilities, and applications

In this section, we will talk about what can we do with ROS-I today. We will focus our discussion section on ROS deployment or ROS being deployed in an industrial setting.

We will talk about the lowest components of the POS-I software stack, the hardware devices, ROS capabilities in an industrial setup, and amazing applications.

Currently, ROS-I has a device driver for five different robot manufactures: ABB, Fanuc, Universal Robots, Motoman, and Adept, which are shown in the following photograph:

ROS Industrial robot manufactures

There are a couple of models from these robot ...

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