Just an FYI, This article was recently posted via slashdot: http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2012/03/29/can-willow-garages-linux-for -robots-spur-internet-scale-growth/?single_page=true
<quote> That's one of the main arguments you'll hear from the engineers at Willow Garage, a unique startup in Menlo Park, CA, that's developing hardware and software for a new generation of personal robots. You can't name a single Internet company, they say, that would have succeeded if it had been forced to recreate all the basic tools underlying the Web, from the Linux operating system to the Apache HTTP server to the MySQL database system to the Python, Perl, and PHP programming languages-the ingredients of the so-called LAMP stack. Yet most robot companies still try to reinvent the wheel every time, building robots that require putting together a tangled mess of proprietary, one-off software systems. </quote> Slashdot link: http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/03/29/1325256/needed-a-lamp-stack-fo r-robotics?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&utm_medium=feed Linuxcnc was already mentioned in one of the early comments. Also interesting and perhaps applicable is the discussion about STEP-NC on the developers mailing list. Regards, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
