Robots Unite: Patch my operating system to 3.0 now, human! Warner Bros.From Popular Science:
A common robot operating system could lead to a robotics revolution -- scientifically speaking, of course.
Today's robots represent islands unto themselves that don't share either software or hardware with each other. But researchers have begun developing a common operating system that could revolutionize robotics and permit easier collaboration with less reinvention of the proverbial wheel. The change could rival that which rippled through the PC industry when Microsoft's Disk Operating System (DOS), and later Windows, burst onto the scene and became standard.
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