''ROS (Robot Operating System) provides libraries and tools to help software developers create robot applications. It provides hardware abstraction, device drivers, libraries, visualizers, message-passing, package management, and more. ROS is licensed under an open source, BSD license.'' Available Translations: [[de|German]] | [[es|Spanish]] | [[fr|French]] | [[it|Italian]] | [[ja|Japanese]] | [[ko|Korean]] | [[pt_BR|Brazilian Portuguese]] | [[pt|Portuguese]] | [[ru|Русский (Russian)]] | [[th|Thai]] | [[tr|Turkish]] | [[cn|简体中文]] | [[ua|Ukrainian]] | [[vn|Vietnamese]] | [[ar|العربية]] ROS: . '''[[ROS/Introduction|Introduction]]''' . An introduction to what is ROS. . '''[[ROS/Installation|Install]]''' . Install ROS on your machine. '''[[ROS/StartGuide|Getting Started]]''' . Learn about various concepts, client libraries, and technical overview of ROS. '''[[ROS/Tutorials|Tutorials]]''' . Step-by-step instructions for learning ROS hands-on '''[[Get Involved|Contribute]]''' . How to get involved with the ROS community, such as submitting your own repository. '''[[Support]]''' . What to do if something doesn't work as expected. '''[[Quality|Quality Assurance]]''' . How to ensure that your ROS-based systems and your contributions to ROS are of high quality. Software: . '''[[Distributions]]''' . View the different release Distributions for ROS. '''[[https://index.ros.org/?search_packages=true|Packages]]''' . Search the 2000+ software libraries available for ROS. '''[[APIs|Core Libraries]]''' . APIs by language and topic. '''[[Tools|Common Tools]]''' . Common tools for developing and debugging ROS software. Robots/Hardware: . '''[[Robots]]''' . Robots that you can use with ROS. '''[[Sensors]]''' . Sensor drivers for ROS. '''[[Motor Controller Drivers|Motors]]''' . Motor controller drivers for ROS. Publications, Courses, and Events: . '''[[Papers]]''' . Published papers with open source implementations available. . '''[[Books]]''' . Published books with documentation and tutorials with open source code available. . '''[[Courses]]''' . Courses using or teaching ROS. . '''[[Events]]''' . Past events and materials based on ROS. ~-There are several [[Mirrors|mirrors]] of this wiki for use around the world-~