![]() In particular, we describe commercial robots like the Cye and the Pioneer, a software platform like Orocos as a examples of industrial world applications, the libre tools around the LEGO Mind-storms in the case of teaching, and the Robocup competition and the Player/Stage platform in research area. In this paper we analyze the situation of libre software in these three subareas: industry, teaching and research. Even companies whose main business model is to sell robots have found convenient to share the software in order to promote a community around their products. Libre software tools have been tra-ditionally popular among the robotics research and teaching community. In the last years the field of robotics has been an emerging application area of the libre (free/open source) software phenomenon. Software is one of the major components of robots in fact, it is the main bottleneck for the proliferation of robotics in our everyday lives.
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