[Tyler]

Gostai Frees Urbi Kernel Source Under AGPL
     

There's one more free/open robot operating system option out there
today. Jean-Christophe Baillie of Gostai SAS writes, "I thought you
might be interested to know that the Urbi
Operating System for robotics is now going open source.". If you're
familiar with Urbi, you may know that the component
architecture and library code have been free software licensed under
the GPL but the actual Urbi kernel has been proprietary up until now.
With this
announcement, the kernel is being relicensed under the Affero GNU
GPL v3, allowing it to join the other components as free software (or
open source software if
you prefer). All the free software components
are also available for download at no cost, making them free as in
free beer as well as free as in free speech. The one
missing piece that remains is Gostai Studio, a GUI programming
environment for Urbi. We can hope that too will be freed before long or
a suitable free software replacement developed. Urbi supports
the Sony Aibo, iRobot Create, LEGO Mindstorms NXT,
Aldebraran Nao, MobilRobots Pioneer, Segway RMP, Meccano Spykee, and
other robots.
   

http://robots.net/article/3032.html
     

[Seg]

You should also check out their website for more information: www.gostai.com
Their community portal gives tutorials on how to use Urbi too: www.urbiforge.org
I hope this all helps!

[Art]

Seg,

Thanks for the link. The site is nicely done and very topical!!

[Freddy]

Thanks