Speaker: Asma Basly (OORB Studio)
Abstract
Robotics development today is plagued by extreme fragmentation-dozens of simulation tools, multiple versions of ROS, incompatible CAD workflows, and countless dependency conflicts that vary across operating systems and hardware configurations. Research teams spend more time wrestling with toolchains than actually building and testing robotic systems. In this talk, we’ll first explore the depth of this fragmentation problem, how teams lose weeks to environment setup, and why collaboration across institutions remains challenging. We’ll then examine how containerization and cloud infrastructure can fundamentally solve these issues.