Brian Gerkey

We didn't use that term because it was on wheels and most people think about humanoids as being on legs, although I think that's reasonable.

People could disagree.

It was a large wheeled robot with two arms and it was meant to go into research labs.

The proposition was, let's get a really great hardware platform into the hands of the smartest researchers all around the world.

And let's see what they can do.

Can they start to crack some of these difficult problems in perception guided manipulation or mobile manipulation?

Can they move around, pick things up, put them down somewhere else?

And we didn't want to just want to ship the hardware.

We wanted to ship great software with it, too, because we knew that if we if you just ship a robot, then the first thing everybody's going to do is write their own software.

And they're largely going to duplicate each other's efforts.

And if what we're trying to do is accelerate the field, let's.

It's given them great hardware and great software.

And we decided to make all that software open source.

So ROS continues to be an open source platform.

Part of our team here at Intrinsic is contributing just to ROS to make sure that it continues to be a vibrant ecosystem.

And of course, our contributors from many, many other companies who are working on ROS.

And then we're also increasingly start adopting some of those components out of ROS into the Intrinsic product that we deliver to our customers.

Sure.

So you should think about what we're doing at Intrinsic.

We think of ourselves as a robotics and AI software company.