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#69 Kat Scott: First They Laugh, Then They Fight, Then You Win, Open-Source Robotics
I sat down with Kat Scott, Developer Relations Engineer at Intrinsic AI (a Google company), who’s spent her entire 20+ year career in robotics. Kat is the developer advocate for the Robot Operating System (ROS), the open-source, “Linux for robots” that’s quietly been downloaded nearly a billion times. We get into why she believes open source has already won in robotics, the game theory behind why that happened, and why we can’t bring production back home until we bring back the boring stuff at the base of the pyramid.
Enjoy.
Recording date: June 10, 2026
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
03:18 Rats…
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