After two years of running the ROS-Industrial Asia Pacific workshop digitally, this year’s edition has returned to physical and was held from 9 to 10 Nov 2022. The ROS-AP team has seen an overwhelming response, with tickets sold out happening early in the registration. Over 100 attendees from the ROS community attended this 2-day event, with 15 esteemed speakers who are leaders in business, industry, research, and education sectors. Prof Quek Boon Tong, CE of the National Robotics Programme Singapore, has graced the event as a Guest-of-honour, and among the keynote speakers are Prof Selina Seah, Assistant CEO of Changi General Hospital and Prof Giorgio Metta, Scientific Director of IIT.

The entire speaker lineup can be found here.

This workshop has provided many insights into ROS’s global development and adoption. Particularly on how ROS has become an essential component for large organisations to achieve their developmental goal in robotics and how ROS has supported the early-stage journey growth of aspiring start-ups such as Lionsbot and Augmentus. Matthew Festo, the General Manager of Open Robotics Singapore, has shared that there are more than $6 billion in known acquisitions of ROS-based companies and 2.2 million ROS-based installations and updates per month. With these staggering stats, ROS is making a huge global impact! Similarly, Mr Su Lian Jye, the Research Director of ABI Research, shared that ROS had greatly accelerated the development of robotics solutions, creating a rippling effect in driving the higher demand for automated solutions by numerous industries. Lastly, there were multiple sharing on Open-RMF, a ROS-based interoperability framework that enables different fleets of robots to interoperate with the infrastructure assets and building management systems. Prof Selina Seah and Dr Pongsak, General Manager for Pansonic R&D centre, have shared different use cases deployed within a hospital environment. The demand for robotics in the service industry has dramatically increased, and the healthcare sector remains a forerunner in using robotics to enhance services and efficiencies.

The end of this workshop marks another successful year of the ROS-Industrial Asia Pacific team proliferating ROS and cultivating a robust, inclusive ROS ecosystem in Asia. As the effort intensifies, the ROS-Industrial Asia Pacific team will continue to grow and see a new leadership pairing of Maria Vergo and Tan Chang Tat taking the team forward into the next phase. Watch this space!

Darryl Lee, Consortium Manager

ROS-Industrial Asia Pacific

The approved slides and presentations are made available through the links below.

Presentation Slides

VIDEO RECORDINGS