Collect and search robotics data with SensorSurf
We've been building SensorSurf and are thrilled to share our beta with the robotics community: https://github.com/SensorSurf/agent. SensorSurf is an open source platform that makes it easy for robotics engineers to collect and search data from their fleet. You can define triggers for when to record data (e.g. emergency stop) and capture the moments leading up to the event with rolling buffers. We integrate directly with ROS. Drop our agent into your system, and start collecting data! ================= What prompted me to found this company: > I was a perception engineer…
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SensorSurf is an open source platform that helps robotics engineers collect and search data from robot fleets. It integrates directly with ROS and allows users to define triggers for recording events, such as emergency stops, while capturing preceding moments using rolling buffers. Engineers can deploy the agent into their systems to automatically gather and organize data from their robots.
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We've been building SensorSurf and are thrilled to share our beta with the robotics community: https://github.com/SensorSurf/agent. SensorSurf is an open source platform that makes it easy for robotics engineers to collect and search data from their fleet. You can define triggers for when to record data (e.g. emergency stop) and capture the moments leading up to the event with rolling buffers. We integrate directly with ROS. Drop our agent into your system, and start collecting data! ================= What prompted me to found this company: > I was a perception engineer working on autonomous boats. > I needed tons of imagery to build computer vision datasets. > It was impossible to offload all this data over satellite. > I interviewed robotics companies, and learned this was a common problem. ================= Our beta enables you to: 1. Trigger recording on arbitrary ROS topic data. 2. Capture the data leading up to the trigger (rolling buffer). 3. Offload over a poor connection (set max upload rate). 4. Search imagery with natural language. ================= Open source announcement: https://www.sensorsurf.com/blogs/were-going-open-source
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