Part 1 of our 5-part documentary about ROS (Robot Operating System). This is the story of how ROS went from being an academic side project to a platform that is revolutionizing the world of robotics.
Stanford Personal Robotics Program begins building the PR1
Willow Garage hires its first employees
The first PR1 prototype is announced
Willow Garage begins its personal robotics project and formalizes ROS
ROS.org is created
ROS 1.0 is released
Willow Garage gifts PR2 robots to 11 research institutions
TurtleBot is created
ROS reaches 100 repositories
Responsibility for maintaining ROS moves to Open Robotics
Willow Garage offically shuts down
ROS 2.0 is released
Before he started work on ROS, Brian Gerkey created an open source robot simulation program that helped change the game.
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Robotics isn’t the only field undergoing a revolution. Meet the people advancing artificial intelligence.
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