ROS - Robot Open Source

ROS and ROS.org

ROS, Willow Garage's software platform, stands for two things: Robot Operating System, a loose analogy to a computer operating system, and Robot Open Source. All of the software in development at Willow Garage is released under a BSD license at code.ros.org/gf/projects/ros. It is completely open source and free for others to use, change and commercialize upon -- our primary goal is to enable code reuse in robotics research and development. Willow Garage is strongly committed to developing open source and reusable software. With the help of an international robotics community, we've also released all of the software we are building on ROS at code.ros.org in the "ros-pkg" and "wg-ros-pkg" projects.  There, you'll find everything we're working on, from drivers to novel algorithms, as well as ROS-integration for Player/Stage, OpenCV, and TREX.

ROS development is an ongoing joint effort within the robotics community. The system is based on Switchyard, written by Morgan Quigley at Stanford, and has seen numerous contributions from institutions around the world. To find out more about ROS and ROS community efforts, please visit ros.org.