Armies of Japanese robots running the open source Linux operating system will now be marching through a town near you!
Or maybe not. But General Robotix has developed programmable software that runs on Linux for their towering 14 inch doom-bot.
How long until their (tiny) army is unleashed on the world?

Robot backers turn to Linux

And as the quote below shows, they’re all about open.  They love the word.  As long as open means “runs only on, for, and by Microsoft” they’re as open as they come.
Where as robotics applications usually use stable and home-built apps to make the buggers do their automated thing.
Somehow I don’t think it’ll fly.  But […]