Why I'm Learning ROS 2 as a Database Person

There's a moment that happens in every robotics company that makes it to production. The pilot worked. The robot does the thing. Now there are twenty on the floor, then fifty, then a fleet, and somebody asks: "What did the sensors look like on unit 17 during those three anomalies last quarter?" That's when the data infrastructure question gets real. As robotics moves from lab to warehouse floor to factory line, that question is going to come up a lot more often. The default answers aren't built