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Episode 56: Intelligent warehouse robots - Guillaume Doisy

Robot Talk · 6 Oct 2023 · 18m · Episode 56

What this episode covers

Guillaume Doisy, Lead Systems Architect at Dexory, explains how the company builds digital twins of warehouses using autonomous mobile robots to solve inventory inaccuracy. He details the technical challenges of indoor localization in dynamic environments where over 90% of stock changes frequently, and describes the robot's sensor suite including wheel encoders and LiDAR. Doisy also discusses his long-term contribution to ROS (Robot Operating System), highlighting its role in standardizing hardware abstraction and enabling resilient, modular software architectures for the robotics industry.

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companies scaling up

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Companies
Dexory, Wyca
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ROS

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