The speaker is an entrepreneur who has a robotics based company and has written 7 books until now. The talk tells about the speakers journey through engineering to following his passion of robotics! Lentin Joseph is an author, roboticist and robotics entrepreneur from India. He runs a robotics software company called Qubotics Labs in Kochi/Kerala. He has 8 years of experience in the robotics domain primarily in Robot Operating System, OpenCV, and PCL.

He has authored several books in ROS, namely, Learning Robotics using Python first and second edition, Mastering ROS for Robotics Programming first and second edition, ROS Robotics Projects, and Robot Operating System for Absolute Beginners.

He has pursued his Masters in Robotics and Automation from India and also worked at Robotics Institute, CMU, USA. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx