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Ready to Use Virtualized ROS Groovy

ROS Groovy was released on December the 31st, 2012. For those of you who just want to quickly experiment with it, we provide a ready to use..

Many newcomers to ROS don’t know where to start. Indeed, ROS is not an application, but it is rather a robotics middleware. That is an..

When designing a robot, choosing the right shape can have tremendous impact on the robot controller. This idea has been pushed to the..

UPDATE: This tutorial is about ROS Fuerte (released on April 2012). The content still applies to the virtual machine for ROS Groovy..

Today, we describe how to use ROS Fuerte over the network and have a couple of ROS nodes running on different machines. We assume that you..

UPDATE: Instead of installing ROS, you can simply download the VirtualBox virtual machine that we provide, so you can start experimenting..

Although ROS stands for “Robot Operating System”, it is not an operating system. At least not as intended when talking about..