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Willow garage, robot research lab, heart of ROS, will shut down

• BrokenPipe 13y ago
  I didn't know it was funded by an ex-googler, Mr Hassan, however I did try ros a few times and it seems a very well designed platform to get started on robotics. I really like ROS: - it has an arduino plugin to immediately get the arduino integrated in the ROS ecosystem (i.e. rostopic) , ideal for novices like myself - it has lots of packages from kinect/xtion to drive servo motors like dynamixel's - OpenCV bridge I mostly use the python bindings as I find them easier to deal with than compile everything (and possibly cross compile given i'm running ROS on arm and that it would take forever to build there) Sad news!
• serf 13y ago
  That sucks. I always had hoped to play with a PR-2.
  • BrokenPipe 13y ago
    Me too! Have you seen the UBR-1 ? Should be fairly similar and quite cheaper!