Testing to Scale, RoboDevOps, Zenoh vs DDS: ROSCon 2024

Episode 16 of the Audrow Nash Podcast. Three interviews from ROSCon 2024 in Denmark: Dexory scaling warehouse inventory robots and treating testing as how you ship fast, Asimovo building a Kubernetes-based RoboDevOps platform for team setups and sim compute, and ZettaScale on Zenoh as a protocol aimed at DDS's rough edges for ROS 2. I talk with Marcus Scheunemann (head of autonomy, Dexory) about tall scanning robots for lost inventory and advocating for testing when the org wants features; with Christine Fraser (CEO & founder, Asimovo) about collaborative robotics development environments across laptop, on-prem, and cloud; and with Angelo Corsaro (CEO & CTO, ZettaScale) about Zenoh end-to-end from microcontroller to data center, discovery, and ROS 2 middleware. You'll like this if you were at ROSCon, ship ROS 2 fleets, or care about warehouse robotics, developer platforms, or middleware. Segments: Dexory ~2:12, Asimovo ~19:22, ZettaScale / Zenoh ~44:32. EPISODE LINKS - ROSCon 2024: https://roscon.ros.org/2024/ - Dexory: https://www.dexory.com/ - Asimovo: https://asimovo.com/ - ZettaScale: https://www.zettascale.tech/ PODCAST LINKS - Podcast Website: https://audrownashpodcast.com/ - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@audrow - Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/audrow-nash-podcast/id1716486786 - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/74jWpWiLwsasY2QHtDcl8I?si=6c92796bf9554162 TIMECODES 0:00 Cold open 2:12 Dexory: Marcus intro 3:24 Series B and scaling 6:52 Lost inventory problem 11:10 Software behind Dexory 13:58 Advocating for testing 17:18 Dexory next 2–5 years 19:22 Asimovo: Christine intro 21:17 Solutions for every setup 23:56 Diverse workflows 29:23 Clusters across platforms 34:07 Progress and adoption 40:04 One-year goals 43:09 Where to learn more 44:32 ZettaScale: Angelo intro 49:56 Distributed queries 53:07 Routing and sync 1:01:17 DDS challenges and ROS 2 1:05:29 Zenoh name story 1:07:48 ROS integration 1:13:11 Next 1–3 years