Remember the California based start up, Willow Garage, which has been working on open-source robotics. We even saw some of their ongoing work on PR2(personal robot) robots.
For more than a decade, some of the more interesting work in the field of robotics has been driven by open source efforts. Open source robotics platforms have flourished, but they've also been fragmented, with software and hardware designs produced all around the world that have little to do with each other.
Meet the PR2 personal robot from Willow Garage. The human-sized bot can learn to fold clothes and do other activities via voice commands, and it can even get into sword fights.
Willow Garage sets its open-source software free to attract software developers and help make robots commonplace, but detractors say giving the software away is bad for business. [Read more]...
Willow Garage sets its open-source software free to attract software developers and help make robots commonplace, but detractors say giving the software away is bad for business.
An open source Game Editor has been released that claims to be a tool for developing cross-platform 2D games for a wide variety of Operating Systems and Architectures. It is called the Game Editor.
There have been a recent announcement made by Skype which come as a joy to many Linux users, the Skype client is going open source, although not entirely.
To commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Mission, NASA has released the source code of the software for the Apollo Guidance Computer, that helped man set foot on Moon, under the GNU GPLv2 license.
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