Andrew Tinka, Director of Software Engineering at Scythe Robotics, discusses how his team uses Rust to build autonomous electric mowers for commercial landscaping. The conversation covers the unique challenges of robotics software in uncontrolled environments, why Rust's safety guarantees make it well-suited for safety-critical systems with sharp blades operating near people, and practical topics like fleet management, actor frameworks (Ractor), async Rust pitfalls, and the Robot Operating System (ROS). Andrew brings over a decade of experience from Amazon Robotics in multi-agent planning and fleet management.
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