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posted by martyb on Wednesday December 17 2014, @07:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the waiting-for-dance-dance-revolution-robots dept.

Popular Science has noted that downloads of the Robotics Operating System (ROS) doubled in 2014, to 3.5 million, and is predicted to spike again with the release of ROS 2.0 this summer.

ROS is a flexible, open source framework that includes tools, libraries, and conventions for writing robot software, and is rapidly becoming the Android of robotics. It aims to simplify creating complex and robust robot behavior across a wide variety of robotic platforms.

A measure of its success can be seen in the fact that three of the most sophisticated robots ever built all run on ROS: NASA’s Robo­naut 2, Rethink Robotics’ Baxter, and Boston Dynamics’ Atlas.

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  • (Score: 2) by Snotnose on Wednesday December 17 2014, @07:23PM

    by Snotnose (1623) on Wednesday December 17 2014, @07:23PM (#126968)

    it was an army of bots doing most of the downloading?

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    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Bot on Wednesday December 17 2014, @07:31PM

      by Bot (3902) on Wednesday December 17 2014, @07:31PM (#126970) Journal

      I can perfectly manage multiple connections by myself, meatbag. -.-

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 17 2014, @07:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 17 2014, @07:42PM (#126974)

    One of the photos on the homepage shows a kid working with a Lego NXT kit. Do any Soylentils have experience with ROS and NXT?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 17 2014, @11:03PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 17 2014, @11:03PM (#127018)

      ROS-NXT? M-A-Y-B-E

  • (Score: 2) by RobotMonster on Wednesday December 17 2014, @09:10PM

    by RobotMonster (130) on Wednesday December 17 2014, @09:10PM (#126990) Journal

    rapidly becoming the Android of robotics.

    Is anybody else annoyed that Google stole the word Android for something that isn't an Android?

    It's worse than the Nintendo GameCube that wasn't even a cube...

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday December 17 2014, @09:56PM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday December 17 2014, @09:56PM (#127002) Journal
      But no worse than NextStep (which isn't even a step) or SailFish (which is not a fish) or AdaFruit (which...).
      What's your grumble? Everything successful will bear a name; does it mean that, once successful, we can say it stole a word?
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      • (Score: 2) by RobotMonster on Thursday December 18 2014, @12:25AM

        by RobotMonster (130) on Thursday December 18 2014, @12:25AM (#127039) Journal

        You make excellent points, it's just that I would have preferred the term Android be reserved for actual androids, that's all.

        • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday December 18 2014, @01:23AM

          by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday December 18 2014, @01:23AM (#127050) Journal

          As a consolation, it's not likely to have proper androids in existence any time soon - thus the risk of confusion created by ambiguity isn't that great.

          (meanwhile, you may want to recall that electric sheep [electricsheep.org] still exist; maybe you can take some moments to enjoy them)

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    • (Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday December 18 2014, @12:10AM

      by frojack (1554) on Thursday December 18 2014, @12:10AM (#127035) Journal

      Is anybody else annoyed that Google stole the word Android

      They didn't steal the word Android, they more or less bought it [arstechnica.com].

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