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Sense Think Act Podcast – Open Source Robot Navigation #13

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Audrow Nash speaks to Steve Macenski, who is the Open Source Robotics Engineering Lead at Samsung Research America. Steve leads the Nav2 project, which is an open-source robot navigation framework.

They talk about the problem and challenges of robot navigation, how Nav2 works at a high level, hybrid planners, and about Steve’s experience working with the Nav2 community.

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Audrow Nash

I work at Open Robotics, where I am a software engineer and the host of the Sense Think Act Podcast. Previously, I led Robohub's podcast. Outside of robotics, I do improv and jiu jitsu.

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