> It does little or nothing really well, but it does everything kind of okay. Yes. ROS is basically mediocre interprocess middleware with a standard interface

> It does little or nothing really well, but it does everything kind of okay. Yes. ROS is basically mediocre interprocess middleware with a standard interface used by much academic software. So you can hack stuff together without too much trouble. It won't be efficient or reliable, but it's useful. Think of it as the PHP level of robotics.