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Open Robotics
Company blog · openrobotics.org/bloghardwareprogramming
Open Robotics is the company blog at openrobotics.org, writing about hardware and programming. Since 2018, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Open Source Robotics Foundation”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked pages are about Open Robotics, the team behind ROS, Gazebo and related open source robotics tools, covering its careers and team pages. The comments mention job openings, donation options and staff size, not the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
We are the home for ROS, Gazebo, and Open-RMF. We build open source robot software and help others to apply it.
Most-linked posts?
- Open Source Robotics Foundation3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-04-12
What Hacker News says?
Open Robotics - ROS/Gazebo| Multiple Openings | Singapore | Full-time | https://www.openrobotics.org/careers Open Robotics, the team behind ROS, Gazebo and so much more is hiring for Software Engineers, Dev Ops, Web, Robot Engineers... Help us develop amazing open source tools and libraries to connect robots in healthcare environments. Helping robots, help people. Sr Software Engineer - https://openrobotics.bamboohr…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?”Submitted Open Source Robotics Foundation as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOSHWA board member [1] here and developer advocate at Open Robotics (the people who maintain ROS) here. May I suggest you take a look at microROS[3]? I am also super excited about OSHWA certified open hardware [4]. [1] https://certification.oshwa.org/ [2] https://www.openrobotics.org/ [3] https://micro.ros.org/ [4] https://certification.oshwa.org/
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on “Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited about?”Submitted Canonical and Open Robotics Partner to Deliver Extended ROS Support as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFor robotics, "make robot OS" the first (most popular) donation target would be Open Robotics [1] that develop Robot operative system ROS/ROS2. De-facto standard at least in academia, some startups (for MVP), and institutes. If you are more keen about the hardware side (imo this side probably require more funding if you really want to keep Robots OS, software can come later) I like Robot Studios work by Rob Knight […
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on “Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?”Submitted ROS 2 Iron Irwini Release as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> but they're still just a couple of people. 27 people are listed on their staff page. https://www.openrobotics.org/team/
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on “Robot Operating System – A flexible framework for writing robot software”Submitted General Purpose Robots Should Not Be Weaponized as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIn addition to the papers on end-to-end learning for robotics, it might also be worth reading about the state-of-the art in classical robotics. There's a lot of debate in the field about whether end-to-end learning and scaling will solve robotics[1]. On the E2E side, there's the bitter lesson, scaling for LLMs and other AI success cases. On the skeptical side, there's the reliability limit (has anyone seen any ML cr…
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on “A Revolution in How Robots Learn”Submitted Open Robotics (ROS) team is joining Intrinsic (Alphabet co) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI am the developer advocate for ROS. Many of those projects you mention are using ROS or ROS 2, and the feedback from those users was instrumental in developing ROS 2. By my last count we had approximately 400 companies using ROS and that is likely an undercount. I usually point people to the ROS 2 TSC or the ROS Industrial consortium to get a sense of who using ROS in production. We just published a new paper on RO…
Comment linking /blog/2022/5/12/science-robotics-paper
on “ROS – Robot Operating System”Submitted The Cloud Infrastructure Behind the DARPA SubT Competition as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted NASA Missions That Use Robot Operating System as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ignition Gazebo Edifice Release – Robot Simulation Platform as a story · 1 points
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