Willow Garage. Documentation. ROS. ROS (Robot Operating System) provides libraries and tools to help software developers create robot applications.
It provides hardware abstraction, device drivers, libraries, visualizers, message-passing, package management, and more. ROS is completely open source (BSD) and free for others to use, change and commercialize upon. Our primary goal is to enable software developers to build more capable robot applications quickly and easily on a common platform.
Willow Garage is strongly committed to developing open source and reusable software. Kinect with ROS moving forward quickly.