Willow garage, robot research lab, heart of ROS, will shut down

I didn't know it was funded by an ex-googler, Mr Hassan, however I did try ros a few times and it seems a very well designed platform to get started on robotics.

I really like ROS:

- it has an arduino plugin to immediately get the arduino integrated in the ROS ecosystem (i.e. rostopic) , ideal for novices like myself

- it has lots of packages from kinect/xtion to drive servo motors like dynamixel's

- OpenCV bridge

I mostly use the python bindings as I find them easier to deal with than compile everything (and possibly cross compile given i'm running ROS on arm and that it would take forever to build there)

Sad news!

That sucks. I always had hoped to play with a PR-2.