[Tyler]

Robot Operating System (ROS) in the News Again
     

NewScientist.com
has posted a story on the need for a standardized robot operating
system and point to the, aptly named, Robot Operating System from
Willow Garage and Stanford as a likely candidate. We've mentioned Willow Garage and
ROS several times before. It a development environment that loads on
top of an operating system such as GNU/Linux to provide a standardized
set of APIs forming a "meta operating system" for robot software. ROS source code is
available under the BSD license, making it Free Software and
Open Source Software.
While not mentioned in the article, there are
other contenders for a freely available, community developed robot API
standard including the well-known Player/Stage, Orca, MARIE,
Orocos, and OpenJAUS, among others.
   

http://robots.net/article/2899.html
     

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Ty,
Good info, quite a bit/byte   comes from that old garage.
Keep us posted, keep up the good work, I will try to as well, your an inspiration to dedication.

J.