Ricardo Tellez
CEO Founder at The Construct Robotics Institute
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolRicardo Tellez is a PhD-trained AI researcher and entrepreneur who founded and leads The Construct, the world’s leading online platform for learning ROS. With over a decade of experience building software for ROS-based robots—including human-size humanoids—and a background in embodied semantics research, he bridges academic rigor and practical robot engineering. He is the author of a multi-book "ROS in 5 days" series, teaches ROS at Barcelona universities, hosts weekly live classes on YouTube, and produces the ROS Developers Podcast, making advanced robotics accessible to practitioners. Known for turning complex sensorimotor grounding problems into teachable, hands-on curricula, he combines research, product leadership, and community-building to push robots toward better world understanding.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Spanish, English, French, Japanese, Catalan, Chinese
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Github Skills (6)
driver10
ros9
middleware9
python7
machine-learning3
autonomous-driving3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Duckietown-NCTU/Software
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
In this repository we will collect all the software, middleware, drivers, ROS modules, and so on, that would allow to run our cars.
Contributions:9 commits in 3 days
drivermiddlewareros
duckietown/Software
Mar 2016 - May 2016
This repository contains all the software that runs on the Duckiebot, as well as support files (e.g. maps).
Contributions:8 pushes in 1 month
pythonruns
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