AWS RoboMaker was a cloud-based service designed to simplify the development, simulation, and deployment of intelligent robotics applications. It extended the Robot Operating System (ROS) with seamless integration to AWS services, enabling robots to perform tasks such as data streaming, navigation, communication, comprehension, and learning. Key Features and Functionality: - Development Environment: Provided an AWS Cloud9-based integrated development environment pre-configured with ROS, facilitating efficient application development. - Simulation Service: Offered a fully managed simulation service that supported large-scale and parallel simulations, automatically scaling based on the complexity of the scenarios being tested. - Fleet Management: Included a fleet management service with built-in robot registry, security, and fault tolerance, enabling remote deployment, updates, and management of robotics applications. - WorldForge: Allowed for the automatic creation of numerous pre-defined, randomized 3D virtual environments that mimic real-world conditions, enhancing testing and training processes. Primary Value and User Solutions: AWS RoboMaker aimed to remove the heavy lifting from each step of robotics development, allowing developers to focus on creating innovative applications. By integrating with AWS machine learning, monitoring, and analytics services, it enabled robots to perform complex tasks more effectively. The service facilitated faster development cycles, reduced testing time, and provided scalable solutions for deploying and managing robotics applications. Please note that as of September 2023, AWS RoboMaker has been discontinued. Users are encouraged to explore alternative AWS services, such as AWS Batch, for their robotics development needs.