1000+ ROS Packages

The ROS community has grown an amazing amount this year. As the Robots Using ROS has illustrated, there are all types of robots using ROS, from mobile manipulators, to autonomous cars, to small humanoids. As the types of robots has increased, so too has the variety of software you can use with ROS, whether it be hardware drivers, libraries like exploration, or even code for research papers. This diversity has allowed all types of developers, including researchers, software engineers, and students, to participate in this growing community.

Today we officially crossed the 1000 ROS package milestone. This is due in no small part to the many new ROS repositories that have come online this year. We are now tracking 25 separate ROS repositories that are providing open source code, including repositories from:

• CU Boulder
• UT Austin/Austin Robot Technology
• Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg
• University of Arizona
• Georgia Tech
• Bosch
• University of Maryland
• Care-O-bot
• Brown University
• Technische Universität München
• Stanford AI Lab
• Willow Garage
• Washington University in St. Louis
• I Heart Robotics
• Carnegie Mellon University
• MIT LIS
• WPI
• ModLab at Penn
• USC
• Columbia University
• KU Leuven
• Cornell
• Tully Foote (personal)
• Andrew Harris (personal)

We're excited to see the expansion of such an amazing and vibrant ROS community. Thank you all for taking part.