Since its first debut three years ago, ROS has been gaining some popularity with the robotics folks. *It’s behind the*scenes*of those impressive quadcopters you may remember from a while back. *ROS*helps abstract the lower level functions of a robot by supplying lots*of code for commonly used components (wiimote for example). Being an “operating system” *it comes with lots of nice features you would expect, like a package manager. *It’s open source and many of their projects are well documented making it easy get started.
Check out the video after the break to see it in action
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