A bit of a nitpick, but ROS is not an OS, it is a middleware. Who knows, maybe somebody makes a ROS adaptation for a hard-realtime POSIX OS, would be totally po

A bit of a nitpick, but ROS is not an OS, it is a middleware. Who knows, maybe somebody makes a ROS adaptation for a hard-realtime POSIX OS, would be totally possible. Though I agree, ROS is nowhere near the stability level needed by industrial and automotive products. It's great for prototyping, but one has to keep in mind the inevitable refactoring of the communication layer, and keep the core functionality ROS-independent.