Do you know of an operating system to build personal robots?
Are there any robotic operating systems that make it easier to build personal robots. Search engine seems to think ROS is the way to go.
http://www.ros.org/
http://www.ros.org/
I think the problems with ROS stem from two things:
1) Complexity - way too much complexity for the really simple stuff
2) Change - code samples and documentation you find on the web don't always work when you think they should. I've wasted hours getting simple stuff to work.
I strongly suggestion you think about why you need a robotics OS. If all you want is a library to move motors around, you don't need ROS or anything fancy. You don't need it if you just want to interface with a Kinect. Just use individual libraries and write the glue code.
That being said, you might want to try out these other middlewares: http://www.mira-project.org/joomla-mira/ , http://plasmodic.github.io/ecto/