OSRF Software Engineer Louise Poubel was recently asked to write an article about her upcoming presentation at the IEEE Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference on open source robotics for Scientific Computing magazine. Check out the excerpt, below.
These are exciting times for robotics. In the past few years, we’ve started seeing robotic products make their way into our daily lives. We’re buying robotic vacuum cleaners and toy quadcopters. If you’re lucky enough, you’ve seen a robot dancing at a presentation, had a robot give you information at a store, or received a robot delivery at a hotel. Things that seemed like science fiction just a few years ago are looking like they could become reality in our lifetimes. We can more clearly see a future with package delivery drones and self-driving cars.