In robotics, the Robot Operating System (ROS) has offered an open-source solution for many of these challenges. ROS provides the groundwork for researchers and companies to build off of, so that they can focus on the specific problems that they’re interested in without having to spend time and money on setting up all that underlying software infrastructure first.

Apex.AI’s Apex OS, which is having its version 1.0 release today, extends this idea from robotics to autonomous cars. It promises to help autonomous carmakers shorten their development timelines, and if it has the same effect on autonomous cars as ROS has had on robotics, it could help accelerate the entire autonomous car industry.
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