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The title of this post is wrong and misleading. ROScribe is not a platform, let alone a robotic platform. It's a tool for generating code for a robotic platform

The title of this post is wrong and misleading. ROScribe is not a platform, let alone a robotic platform. It's a tool for generating code for a robotic platform (ROS). I feel the need to clarify this because there is a ton of people who don't understand the difference between a user interface for a system (which ROScribe is for ROS code) and the system itself, and I think that this confusion is cause for much of the hype. What's important to ask is: Does the new technology, in this case LLMs, solve some hard problems in the application area (here robotics), or is it mostly "syntactic sugar", a nice-to-have.

actionfromafar 3y ago
I agree - I also think it's a lost cause. Everything will be "reinvented" with AI now, including terminology. Think about "an operating system for the cloud". What's that? Could be a hypervisor. Or a Javascript framework. Or Office 365, or ChromeOS. Who even knows at this point?
RoboticTech 3y ago
Maybe today it feels like less of a platform, but we plan to make it a platform by integrating more components into it. ROScribe is an AI-native robot software solution now; other than software generation (which is far more than code generation; it includes software specification, code retrieval from online repos, code retrieval from internal IPs, as well as code generation), we want to facilitate simulation (gazebo,...) and the actual robot build (order components online, etc.). That's why we called it platform. We are an early stage startup; hopefully our product gets better. I appreciate your feedback.
nathanfig 3y ago
Ehh, I think platform has been a pretty squishy term for a long time already so it's not one I usually dispute, even if I'm inclined to agree that this project is more of a workflow at this point. ROS itself is not an Operating System as the name implies; middleware is probably more accurate.

actionfromafar 3y ago

I agree - I also think it's a lost cause. Everything will be "reinvented" with AI now, including terminology. Think about "an operating system for the cloud". What's that? Could be a hypervisor. Or a Javascript framework. Or Office 365, or ChromeOS. Who even knows at this point?

RoboticTech 3y ago

Maybe today it feels like less of a platform, but we plan to make it a platform by integrating more components into it. ROScribe is an AI-native robot software solution now; other than software generation (which is far more than code generation; it includes software specification, code retrieval from online repos, code retrieval from internal IPs, as well as code generation), we want to facilitate simulation (gazebo,...) and the actual robot build (order components online, etc.). That's why we called it platform. We are an early stage startup; hopefully our product gets better. I appreciate your feedback.

nathanfig 3y ago

Ehh, I think platform has been a pretty squishy term for a long time already so it's not one I usually dispute, even if I'm inclined to agree that this project is more of a workflow at this point. ROS itself is not an Operating System as the name implies; middleware is probably more accurate.