Open-Source Software Is Starting to Help Robots Think
The open-source movement, which previously accelerated AI development, is now being applied to robotics to enhance robot intelligence. Companies like Hugging Face, Nvidia, and Alibaba are investing in open-source tools and models to enable robots to reason, decide, and act. The Robot Operating System (ROS), established in 2007, serves as a foundational framework, and recent advancements in AI, particularly in computer vision and simulation, are further lowering the barrier to entry for robotics development. AI
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