Is it possible to go from linux administrator into something related to robotics without a major amount of training? or is that leap more of a go back to school for four years type deal?
> Is it possible to go from linux administrator into something related to robotics without a major amount of training?
Certainly possible. You are probably not going to work on the core control, planning or perception algorithms, but many of these robots run linux systems. Managing them, especially at scale, requires a lot of linux know-how. (Both on the robot and off the robot too! Data pipelines, CI/CD, MLOps, etc. All required for the project to sail smoothly.)
I’m working at a self driving car company. As a first approximation self-driving cars are robots on four wheels. As a secondary approximation they are weird data centers with sporadic network connections. Initially we needed a lot of robotics expertise to make the product do the basic things, but as things mature we also needed a lot of linux expertise to scale and get us to a smoothly running machine.
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That's a pretty big jump but doable, depending on what you want to do. Just wanting to move a robot arm doesn't involve a ton of math or anything hard beyond basically trigonometry. There's pretty good software for that and things like driving robots and mapping that help a lot (ROS or the Robots plugin for Grasshopper are great). It's best to have a real goal like a small robot arm that you're trying to program to do a task, or a little driving robot you want to get to drive from A to B. That will help you with some scaffolding to hang further learning on. Good luck!
Certainly possible. You are probably not going to work on the core control, planning or perception algorithms, but many of these robots run linux systems. Managing them, especially at scale, requires a lot of linux know-how. (Both on the robot and off the robot too! Data pipelines, CI/CD, MLOps, etc. All required for the project to sail smoothly.)
I’m working at a self driving car company. As a first approximation self-driving cars are robots on four wheels. As a secondary approximation they are weird data centers with sporadic network connections. Initially we needed a lot of robotics expertise to make the product do the basic things, but as things mature we also needed a lot of linux expertise to scale and get us to a smoothly running machine.
I assume you are not in the UK , so probably not of direct interest to you but here is one of our job adverts which is tailormade for someone with the right kind of linux expertise: https://apply.workable.com/oxa/j/EB627E54F2/