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Can Willow Garage’s “Linux for Robots” Spur Internet-Scale Growth? (Xconomy)
Xconomy looks at Willow Garage and its open source software for robots. "Called the Robot Operating System, or ROS, it’s a collection of algorithms that handle standard tasks required of every mobile robot—things like making sense of a visual scene, planning a path around obstacles. Unlike PR2, ROS is completely free, and is already being adapted by hundreds of robotics labs and companies around the world. It’s spreading so fast that [CEO Steve] Cousins says Willow Garage is considering creating a non-profit foundation, similar to the Apache Software Foundation, that could organize the developer community, collect donations, and act as an independent steward and champion for the software." LWN covered a talk by Willow Garage's Tully Foote from SCALE 10x in January.
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Can Willow Garage’s “Linux for Robots” Spur Internet-Scale Growth? (Xconomy) Posted Mar 29, 2012 16:43 UTC (Thu) by b7j0c (subscriber, #27559) [Link]
i love what willow garage is doing. this is the true spirit of silicon valley hacker-startup culture, and its a shame that companies like willow garage and anybots toil in obscurity while people get excited about yet-another daily-deals clone
Can Willow Garage’s “Linux for Robots” Spur Internet-Scale Growth? (Xconomy) Posted Mar 29, 2012 18:37 UTC (Thu) by gidoca (subscriber, #62438) [Link]
It's a bit hard to get excited about things like OpenCV unless you're an at least semi-advanced programmer. :)
Can Willow Garage’s “Linux for Robots” Spur Internet-Scale Growth? (Xconomy) Posted Mar 30, 2012 4:58 UTC (Fri) by ssmith32 (subscriber, #72404) [Link]
I guess it seems silly to say: But thanks for putting articles like this up! Every time I read one, I get a little closer to buying a robot to play around with (so many other bills, though..)
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