NASA Frees Their Robotics Software

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."

Comments

Nope, you are wrong:

[geekoid]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source

"The term is most commonly applied to the source code of software that is made available to the general public with relaxed or non-existent intellectual property restrictions."

This has relaxed IP restriction. It can be used by any one for non commercial use.

OS and FS are often combined on slashdot, mostly because linux is both.

this library may not be 'free'

[qw0ntum]

But there does exist another large robotics library that is completely free called Player. The project even has two complete simulators, Stage (for 2D simulation of many robots) and Gazebo (for 3D simulation of a smaller number of robots). Great project for any aspiring roboticists out there.