Ever heard about the Robot Operating System? It’s a BSD-licensed open-source system for controlling robots, from a variety of hardware. Over the years we’ve shared quite a few projects that run ROS, ...

Open-source software is giving rise to emerging breeds of quasi-commercial, prosthetic, and industrial robots. Robot Operating System (ROS) software — a suite of software libraries that help ...

On a recent trip to the Bay Area, I took a few hours to pay a visit to Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (BAIR). Professor Ken Goldberg walked me around the lab and introduced me to a ...

Gumstix' announcement of official ROS support accompanies the introduction of a bootable microSD card featuring Linaro 12.11 LTS and ROS preloaded, as well as an image available for download. ROS ...

Northwestern Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) student Maurice Rahme talks about what he learned teaching a Baxter robot to play checkers. Embedded Systems in Robotics is one of three required ...

SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a flexible and collaborative open-source framework for building operating systems for robotics. As its adoption continues to grow, ROS ...

Shadow Robot Company has joined the ranks of Willow Garage, iRobot, and many other robot developers which have some of their hardware running the Robot Operating System (ROS). According to the ROS ...

If you are like us, you probably just spin up your own code for a lot of simple projects. But that’s wasteful if you are trying to do anything serious. Take a robot, for example. Are you using ROS ...

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Overview Python remains one of the most widely used languages in robotics, thanks to its readability, extensive libraries, ...

First released in 2007 by two Stanford PhD students who observed their colleague’s lack of entry into the robotics field, the Robot Operating System (ROS) was developed to be a distributed and modular ...