Friday, March 9, 2012

2012-03-09 ROS

This is something I want to remember to come back to later...

http://www.ros.org/wiki/


ROS is an open-source, meta-operating system for your robot. It provides the services you would expect from an operating system, including hardware abstraction, low-level device control, implementation of commonly-used functionality, message-passing between processes, and package management.

Monday, December 5, 2011

2011-12-05 Robotic Open Platform (ROP)

Open source system for robot hardware to speed up robot development
http://www.tue.nl/en/university/news-and-press/news/01-12-2011-robotic-open-platform-van-start/

Eindhoven University of Technology  
www.roboticopenplatform.org.

The launch of ROP is taking place during the European Robotics Week, from 28 November to 4 December. The week features more than 340 robotics-related activities, organized by 127 institutes, to focus attention on the growing importance of robots for society (www.robotics-week.eu)