Milestones: First ROScon and OSRF [ROS Topics]

I n May of this year, there were two major milestones in the evolution and growth of the robot operating system (ROS): the first ROS conference (ROScon) and the formation of the Open Source Robotics Foundation (OSRF). In ten years, we will look back fondly at ROScon 2012 as the first time the ROS community really gelled in person. And, I predict, ten years from now, we will all rely on OSRF to support the core robot software in the growing number of robots in the world. Let us look at these two milestones in detail.