Robotics and Simulation
The Technical Stacks Behind Botronics’ iXi Autonomous Golf Trolley
January 31, 2026
4:10 PM – 4:55 PM Add to calendar
4:10 PM – 4:55 PM Add to calendar
UB2.147
<p>What if you could build an autonomous, outdoor collaborative robot using free, open-source tools and community-driven software? That’s exactly what we did at Botronics. In this talk, we will take you behind the scenes of iXi, our autonomous golf trolley, showing how we use open-source technologies, from high level behaviors and control to simulation, fleet management, monitoring, and user interfaces, to build a real-world robotic system deployed outdoors.</p>
<p>You’ll see how tools like ROS 2, Gazebo, Nav2, BalenaOS, Docker, Telegraf, Grafana, Rviz2, and React/React Native come together into a production stack to deploy one of the first outdoor collaborative robots. More than just engineering talk, the objective is to provide a return of experience and lessons learned about what open-source robotics can enable outside the lab: reproducible development, remote deployment, full observability, and real user-facing applications.</p>
<p>If you are interested in taking robotics beyond prototypes, building autonomous systems that work in the real world, this session will show you what’s possible using open source stacks from end to end.</p>
Additional information
| Live Stream | https://live.fosdem.org/watch/ub2147 |
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| Type | devroom |
| Language | English |
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