Open-Source Software Is Starting to Help Robots Think
# Open-Source Software Could Make Robots Much Easier to Build Big tech companies like Nvidia and Hugging Face are releasing free, shared software that helps robots make decisions and act on their own—similar to how open-source tools democratized AI development for apps and websites. If this trend continues, building a functional robot could become as accessible and affordable as building an AI application is today, potentially lowering costs and speeding up innovation across industries. The shift is still early, but it mirrors how shared software frameworks (like one called ROS from 2007) previously unified and simplified robotics hardware development.
When a group of academics started making open-source robotics hardware, a generation of roboticists got years of their lives back. Now, the bigger challenge is getting robots to think—and that’s starting to be open-sourced too.The shift is still early, but companies including Hugging Face, Nvidia, a
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