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2022 ROS 2 metrics report

February 13, 2023

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The variety of customers within the ROS neighborhood, for all variations, has proven a gradual enhance since 2008. | Credit: ros.org

The ROS crew not too long ago printed statistics from 2022, and there have been a number of notable tendencies price noting:

ROS is gaining in reputation as an working system for robotics. Both the variety of industrial options utilizing ROS in addition to new initiatives primarily based on ROS elevated in 2022. There are at present greater than 740 industrial robots utilizing ROS.
ROS 2 formally launched in 2022, and the statistics on the assorted ROS websites present a rising migration from ROS 1 to ROS 2. The complete variety of ROS packages downloaded elevated by 7.45%. ROS 2 accounted for 39.82% of all ROS downloads in 2022. ROS 2 had a 54.46% enhance in package deal downloads YoY.
There had been 501,333,806 complete deb downloads in 2022.
An unbelievable 173.35 terabytes of ROS packages had been served from OSUOSL.

ROS assist channels are altering

ROS has quite a lot of assets out there for neighborhood assist and documentation. The resolution is open supply and it’s the ROS neighborhood that helps to assist new customers and deal with tough utility questions.

ROS began with a Wiki, however in 2022, the Wiki misplaced customers and site visitors whereas the ROS docs web site gained greater than 56k new customers. Overall, complete customers had been up 33% year-over-year.

It must be famous that the ROS Wiki solely contains ROS 1 documentation whereas the newer ROS docs web site contains the documentation for the newest variations of each ROS 1 and ROS 2. This helps to clarify the change in documentation utilization patterns.

For neighborhood assist, extra customers appear to be shifting to the ROS Discourse useful resource as Discourse customers are up +9.8% since 2021, whereas ROS Answers customers are down -11.19%.