Episode 6: The Robot Uprising Will Have Very Clean Floors

Published: April 18, 2018, 6 a.m.

b'How many of you are considered heroes? Specifically, in the serverless Cloud, Twitter, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) communities? Well, Ben Kehoe is a hero.\\nBen is a Cloud robotics research scientist who makes serverless Roombas at iRobot. He was named an AWS Community Hero for his contributions that help expand the understanding, expertise, and engagement of people using AWS.\\nSome of the highlights of the show include:\\n\\nBen\\u2019s path to becoming a vacuum salesman\\nHistory of Roomba and how AWS helps deliver current features\\nRoombas use AWS Internet of Things (IoT) for communication between the Cloud and robot\\nBoston is shaping up to be the birthplace of the robot overlords of the future\\nAWS IoT is serverless and features a number of pieces in one service\\nRobot rising of clean floors\\nAWS Greengrass, which deploys runtimes and manages connections for communication, should not be ignored\\nCreating robots that will make money and work well\\nRoomba\\u2019s autonomy to serve the customer and meet expectations\\nRobots with Cloud and network connections\\nCompetitive Cloud providers were available, but AWS was the clear winner\\nServerless approach and advantages for the intelligent vacuum cleaner\\nFuture use of higher-level machine learning tools\\nCommon concern of lock-in with AWS\\nChanging landscape of data governance and multi-Cloud\\nPreparing for migrations that don\\u2019t happen or change the world\\nData gravity and saving vs. spending money\\n\\nLinks:\\n\\nBen Kehoe on YouTube\\nAWS\\nAWS Community Hero\\nAWS IoT\\nBen Kehoe on Twitter\\niRobot\\nAWS Greengrass\\nShark Cat\\nMedium\\nBoston Dynamics\\nAWS Lambda\\nAWS SageMaker\\nAWS Kinesis\\nGoogle Cloud Platform Spanner\\nKubernetes\\nDigital Ocean'