The Open Source Robotics Foundation (now known as Open Robotics), is celebrating its 10-year anniversary. The organization serves as the home for the Robot Operating System (ROS), which is a set of open source software libraries, drivers, and developer tools for building robot applications. To mark the occasion, IEEE Spectrum spoke with OSRF about changes they’ve seen in the industry.
“The biggest change I’ve observed is that over the past 10 years a modern robotics industry has, at long last, taken off. We’d been telling ourselves for years and years that capable, semiautonomous robots would soon be out running around in the world, and now they finally are. And because many, perhaps most, of those robots run ROS, our community now has much greater participation from industry, which is a big shift from our original user base in academic research,” says Brian Gerkey, CEO of Open Robotics.
Read more at IEEE Spectrum.
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