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NASA Frees Their Robotics Software

Posted by samzenpus on from the now-everyone-will-make-robots dept.

kremvax writes "It's a field day for robotics hackers everywhere, as NASA releases the first installment of their CLARAty reusable robotic software framework to the public. According to the JPL press release, these modules contain everything from math infrastructure to device drivers for common motors and cameras, and computer vision, image, and 3D processing."

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  1. Re:lol editors lol style guide lol snape dies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    No seriously, NASA is an acronym not a proper name. National Aviation and Space Administration.
    Kindly get it right. Oh yeah, this is slashdot...

    The BBC does it as well, which is odd since they should use "Bbc" to be consistent.

    But I'm from the Usa, so what do I know...

  2. Neat.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Urge to tinker....rising....

  3. Speaking of NASA and Robots.... by Tmack · · Score: 2, Funny
    The Model B-9 from the Lost in Space TV series became NASA's this week... wonder if they are porting this software to it as well?

    tm

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  4. Free information = Terrorists with robots by tacarat · · Score: 4, Funny

    Seriously. Jonny5 will be sending his manifesto to the New York Times pretty soon.

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    "Common sense will be the death of us all"
  5. Re:Possible Civilian Uses? by JeremyBanks · · Score: 2, Funny

    No.

  6. Does this include by sien · · Score: 2, Funny

    The metric to Imperial conversions routines?

  7. Ooh camera algorithms by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Me: "My friends and I wanted to make a Moon landing video, what effects do we need to fake it?"
    NASA: "Here, have ours. Even comes with a moon rock generator."
    Me: "Sweet! I can make a 200 pound rock fall on one of the astronauts?"
    NASA: "Yeah, but sometimes it makes a 200 kilogram rock instead. We still haven't ironed that stuff out."