DARPA-Funded Software Could Usher In the Era of Open-Source Robotics

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47989301 story Posted by Soulskill on Friday June 28, 2013 @04:25PM from the or-skynet,-either-one dept. malachiorion writes "The best thing to come out of the DARPA Robotics Challenge, so far, isn't the lineup of nifty rescue bots being developed by teams around the world, or even Boston Dynamics' incredible Atlas humanoid. It's the pumped-up version of Gazebo, the free, open-source robotics simulation software whose expansion and further development is being funded by DARPA. This article has a look at how the software was used in the recent virtual leg of the competition, as well as how it could change the way robotics R&D is conducted (and create more roboticists, with its low-cost, cloud-based architecture)." You may like to read: Post

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