Robotics meets IT trends

Recent evolutions of the robotics and automation market are benefiting from an influx of methodological practices and tools from the IT world. These include agile software development and standardization processes, as well as open-source frameworks started in service robotics and finding their way into industrial automation. Open-source is different from commercial products in terms of methods, guarantees, governance, and needs to be understood fully in order to be fully leveraged. The talk gives the main information needed for this, with relevant examples from current deployments and developments in the making.