The Nightmare in Silicon Valley: 8 horror technologies that should scare you to death
Every night is fright night with what can happen once these scary technologies take hold in ways that you may not have imagined.
ROS, an open-source robotics middleware, has fueled a hardware revolution.
If you look around today, you'll notice that a lot of robots are built as task-agnostic platforms. You can trace the origins of that idea to Turtlebot.
Sure, it looks crude. But this low-cost personal robot kit, which was created at Willow Garage by Melonee Wise and Tully Foote, gave robotics engineers a mobile platform they could rig with an endless number of sensor payloads and end-effectors.
Even a few years earlier, designing a robot meant starting from scratch. Thanks to Turtlebot, developers could start with a solid platform and build out from there.
Naturally, ROS is the turtle's mother tongue.
Caption by: Greg Nichols
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