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Robot Operating System

Collection of software frameworks for robot software development
CreativeWork software_framework Q2160077

Facts

14 properties
Instance of
software framework
Inception
2007[19]
Official website
ros.org[21]
Has use
Robotics suite[18]
Copyright license
BSD licenses[5]
Copyright status
copyrighted[24]
Creator
Keenan Wyrobek[2]
Developer
Willow Garage, Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory[3][4]
Operating system
Linux, Windows 10, macOS[8][9][10]
Programmed in
C++, Python[6][7]
Readable file format
Wikidata item[22]
Software version identifier
1.0, Indigo Igloo, Jade Turtle, Melodic Morenia, Noetic Ninjemys, Iron Irwini, Jazzy Jalisco[11][12][13][14][15][16][17]
Start time
March 2, 2010[20]
Writable file format
Wikidata item[23]
🏷️ Also known as
en Robot Operating System en Robotic Operating System en ROS ar نظام تشغيل روبوت ROS el ROS es ROS fa سیستم عامل روبات fr Robot OS fr ROS ko 로봇 운영체제 pl ROS ru ROS (Robot Operating System) tr Robot İşletim Sistemi uk Robot Operating System
🔖 Identifiers · 11
GND ID
1135309531
ArchWiki article
ROS
Freebase ID
/m/04q2r73
Gentoo Wiki article
ROS
GitHub account
ros
Golden ID
Robot_Operating_System-V5XK84
NLAI ID
1575066
Official blog URL
ros.org
Source code repository URL
github.com, github.com
Stack Exchange tag
stackoverflow.com, robotics.stackexchange.com
X (Twitter) username
rosorg
🔗 Connections
Operating system 2
Linux, macOS
Programmed in 2
Python, C++
Copyright license 1
BSD licenses
Developer 1
Willow Garage
Instance of 1
software framework
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Robot Operating System is a software framework[1].

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  1. [2] ↑ . spectrum.ieee.org. spectrum.ieee.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . docs.ros.org. docs.ros.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . docs.ros.org. docs.ros.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . ros.org. ros.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wiki.ros.org. wiki.ros.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wiki.ros.org. wiki.ros.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wiki.ros.org. wiki.ros.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . docs.ros.org. Retrieved . docs.ros.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . docs.ros.org. docs.ros.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved . nationalarchives.gov.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved . nationalarchives.gov.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 14w ago · YULdigitalpreservation · 2026-07-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    Official website → https://ros.org
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