Brian Gerkey

Like we at Intrinsic, we've got some hypotheses and we're exploring.

We already have deployments with customers and we've got some, you know, what we think are like

really great ideas for those applications are, but we don't have a monopoly on those ideas, right?

Like I think where the more, the bigger impact play here for us is we put the tools out there and then we get what that means is like somebody who doesn't even come from a robotics background, ideally, I think they generally have the best ideas.

They're going to come in not enamored of a robot as a technology and look for a place to plug it in.

Rather, they're going to come at it from the point of view of, you know what, I don't know anything about that technology, but I understand what this customer over here wants.

I understand what the need is.

Now you, and not knowing anything about robots, you've given me the tools I need to build that application and then go work with that customer, right?

I think that's...

That is what is, that's what historically has been missing in robotics is the ideas for where to apply the robots.

100%.

I think on the, you know, one of my favorite things to do every year is go to ROSCON.

It's the ROS Developers Conference.

That's awesome.

The Open Source Robotics Foundation, which is the nonprofit that is responsible for the ROS ecosystem.

That organization puts on this conference every year.

It'll be in Toronto in the fall.

For anybody who's watching, please come join us in Canada for ROSCON.

And that's a place where one of the reasons I like to go there, other than just being able to see lots of friends and colleagues, is you get to see the variety of applications.

So if you roll back to that origin story for Ross, and I mentioned we built it for, it was a robot called the PR2, which was this large kind of human-sized robot on wheels with arms and cameras.