Hi ROS2 Community, I'd like to share a ROS 2 community report that, through various user interviews, discusses the current needs of ROS 2 for mass adoption by the community: https://picknik.ai/docs/ROS2_User_Stories_Report.pdf ## Executive Summary This report summarizes 15 interviews with users, or potential users, of the Robotic Operating System (ROS) conducted by PickNik Consulting for Amazon Web Services and the ROS 2 Technical Steering Committee (TSC). It is motivated by Amazon's customer-focused approach to developing their product specifications, and is intended to inform future ROS 2 resource allocations after the December 2018 ROS Crystal, the third release of ROS 2. The feedback collected and types of feature requests varied greatly. Even considering the diverse applications of ROS, it is remarkable how many use cases and needs exist in the robotics community. This plethora of sometimes conflicting requests inspires great respect for the challenges faced by Open Robotics and the ROS 2 development team in making design decisions and choosing the current feature set. While reviewing this report we ask the reader keep in mind that criticizing ROS is much easier than actually creating an open source, robot-agnostic, multi-purpose robotics middleware. The primary takeaway from this report is that most of the key features needed by potential ROS 2 users have been addressed, but robustness and reliability through hardware testing is a huge unaddressed concern of users. Similarly, a branding and marketing problem remains due to overdue promises and scattered online assets. The strategy we believe would best address both of these concerns would be to choose a flagship hardware platform and set inspiring milestones (stretch goals) that would demonstrate ROS 2's applied capabilities (such as navigation and manipulation) while generating impressive demo videos. This effort would also spotlight missing feature areas still required for using ROS 2 on actual hardware. --- [Visit Topic](https://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-2-customer-stories-report/8158/1) or reply to this email to respond. If you do not want to receive messages from ros-users please use the unsubscribe link below. If you use the one above, you will stop all of ros-users from receiving updates. ______________________________________________________________________________ ros-users mailing list ros-users@lists.ros.org http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users Unsubscribe: