Gostai is happy to announce the release of Urbi SDK 2.1 [1], which features ROS support. Urbi SDK is a software platform for the development of robotic applications [2]. It includes the Urbi UObject distributed C++ component architecture, to manage hardware drivers and software modules (local or remote), and urbiscript, a parallel and event-driven programming langage to orchestrate them. Urbi SDK 2.1 introduces a bridge between Urbi and ROS. This combination allows users to benefit from the large set of components available with ROS together with the innovative orchestration capabilities of Urbi and urbiscript. For more information, see: - Urbi/ROS Examples & Mini FAQ http://www.gostai.com/products/ros/ - Urbi/ROS Tutorial http://www.gostai.com/downloads/urbi-sdk/2.x/doc/urbi-sdk.htmldir/ros-tutorial.html - Urbi/ROS Reference Manual http://www.gostai.com/downloads/urbi-sdk/2.x/doc/urbi-sdk.htmldir/ros.html Enjoy! [1] Urbi SDK 2.1 http://www.gostai.com/downloads/urbi-sdk/2.1/ The "urbi-sdk" packages contain the full Software Development Kit (including headers, documentation and so forth). The "urbi-runtime" packages contain only what is needed to run Urbi programs. Urbi SDK is made for computers on which applications are developped, and Urbi Runtime for robots on which these applications are run. GNU/Linux and Mac OS X packages are regular BZip2 tarballs. Windows Zip files come in two flavors: debug or release. They require that you have MS Visual C++ installed, or that you ran "vcredist.exe". Windows packages in "*.exe" contain an installer that install both flavors, an UObject wizard; it is self contained (vcredist is not needed). The binary packages for GNU/Linux (32 bits) and Mac OS X were built with ROS C Turtle. The Urbi binary packages include the ROS libraries and their dependencies, therefore binary compatibility with the installed version of ROS is not needed. [2] Urbi SDK 2.1 documentation http://www.gostai.com/downloads/urbi-sdk/2.x/doc/urbi-sdk.pdf http://www.gostai.com/downloads/urbi-sdk/2.x/doc/urbi-sdk.htmldir/