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On September 15, the Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF) announced that the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) donated a large sum of money to them and established an open-source robotics company (OSRC) for profit. This cooperation project sounds really worrying because the so-called nature of cooperation and open source are always weird. We spoke to OSRF CEO Brian Gerkey who explained to us how this collaborative project works.
At present, we have received the news that TRI has donated a million dollars to OSRF for the purpose of “promoting the development of open source robot software and the acceptance of the publicâ€. In other words, TRI believes that in the past few years, OSRF has successfully cooperated with an open standards platform called " robot operating system " ( ROS ) and " 3D multi-robot dynamic simulation open source community " ( Gazebo ) ; now OSRF can use this money to promote the progress of ROS and Gazebo to benefit everyone.
From the very beginning, OSRF was a non-profit organization that survived with government and donations from various companies. As a non-profit organization, OSRF cannot serve specific companies and make direct profit from it. This means: First, OSRF cannot contribute to the development of ROS for the commercial and industrial functions of robots. It is the two areas where ROS has the greatest potential. The second problem that derives from this is that OSRF cannot obtain financial assistance from other companies, but these companies actually want to invest money to make ROS better by expanding its business scope so as to benefit the public.
The newly established OSRC is a profitable organization under the OSRF. The existence of OSRC allows other companies to fund new ROS projects and overall development, while not violating the non-profit nature of parent company OSRF. There are reports that: "OSRF will continue to create and distribute open source, providing free application services for the robot community including ROS and Gazebo."
Speaking of resources, TRI is currently working with OSRC to expand Toyota's rapidly developing robotics and autopilot research initiative's open source and proprietary tools project: "TRI and the newly established OSRC have signed a two-year negotiable agreement. Sexual Provisions - TRI will expand the professional scope of the OSRC Engineering Research team and involve them in the development of more active projects."
We hope to get some feedback on "proactive innovation" from TRI, but we only interviewed OSRF CEO Brian Gerkey for their ultimate purpose.
IEEE Spectrum: What is the OSRC? Why did it suddenly set up?
Brian Gerkey: Over the past few years, the industry has donated more and more money to us, which shows that the products created using ROS and Gazebo still have some commercial value. Of course, there are some restrictions on the non-profit nature of OSRF itself - it is difficult for us to really deal with businessmen and do business. Our goal is to develop open source to support our community while completing basic tasks. At the same time, they have formed alliances with the industry and even solved some of the practical problems that exist among them. At present, we want to continue to do the same thing from the perspective of the industry. At the same time, we can obtain economic support from them without harming our non-profit nature.
IEEE Spectrum: What can we expect from the cooperation between OSRF, OSRC and TRI?
Brian Gerkey: TRI donated a million dollars to OSRF, so OSRF can freely use this money to complete their mission. Together with OSRC, TRI will complete a number of large-scale and year-long cooperation projects related to ROS and Gazebo related service development. Among them, car and robot technology are the two most critical areas, and we expect that TRI's efforts will make it only slightly dependent on ROS and Gazebo. Our role in this is to ensure the development of ROS and Gazebo, and we will support their research and development in these two major areas.
IEEE Spectrum: Does OSRC do something for TRI to feed ROS community?
Brian Gerkey: What OSRF and the ORSC team really do is build open source software to feed the community. The TRI will help us to expand our influence. We also earnestly hope that what we do can bring some contribution to the open source community.
In fact, in addition to TRI, there are many companies that contribute to the prosperity and future development of ROS, such as Qualcomm, NVIDIA, and Bosch. However, as Gerkey explained, because of its non-profit nature, OSRF's contribution in this area is extremely limited. Of course, since the OSRC can accept financial support, it will also directly give the industry the help they need.
From the current point of view, whether you are a casual user of ROS or an executive from a multinational giant, this cooperation is a big plus.
Via IEEE Spectrum
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