Google's Cloud Robotics Could Threaten Jobs

At the 2011 Google I/O developerâ??s conference, Google announced a new initiative called â??cloud roboticsâ? in conjunction with robot manufacturer Willow Garage. Willow Garage and a variety of other contributors have developed an open source (free) operating system for robots, with the unsurprising name â??ROSâ? â?? or Robot Operating System. ROS is being positioned as the MS-DOS (or MS Windows) of robotics.