The hottest thing in robotics is an open source project you've never heard of | Linux Today

The hottest thing in robotics is an open source project you’ve never heard of

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Matt Asay
Jan 12, 2020

ROS has been around for over 10 years and has tens of thousands of developers building packages for it. In fact, according to ABI Research, roughly 55% of the world’s robots will include a ROS package by 2024.

It wasn’t always thus.

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Matt Asay

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