ROS is a good platform for writing software. There are ~50 hardware platforms that support it. Unfortunately robotics is still built to a purpose, and usually a

ROS is a good platform for writing software. There are ~50 hardware platforms that support it. Unfortunately robotics is still built to a purpose, and usually a bit too expensive for a typical hobbyist platform. Our latest robot here at Duke was built with modularity in mind and still cost well over 100k.