Robots rampage (in a friendly way) at SCALE 10X

"World domination" is a less prevalent theme in Linux and open source discussions these days than it was some time ago, but it still comes up regularly in one field of study: robots. At the 2012 Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) in Los Angeles, Willow Garage's Tully Foote described the Robot Operating System (ROS) project, an open source stack for state-of-the-art robotics. ROS is in use by industry and academic research projects, often on hardware that runs in the hundreds-of-thousands of dollars range, but it is capable of running on low end and homebrew robots, too.

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