重大进展！微软现已成功实现ROS在Windows上运行

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Part of the appeal of the Robot Operating System, or ROS, is that it’s much faster and easier to get started with robots because so much of the difficult and annoying groundwork is already done for you. This is totally true, but for many people, getting started with ROS adds a bunch of difficult and annoying groundwork of its own, in the form of Linux. All kinds of people will tell you, “Oh just learn Linux, it’s not so bad!” But sometimes, it really kind of is so bad, especially if all you want is for your robot to do cool stuff.
机器人操作系统（Robot Operating System，简称ROS）的一部分吸引力在于，它可以更快、更容易地开始使用机器人，因为很多困难和烦人的基础工作已经为您完成了。这是完全正确的，但是对于许多人来说，开始使用ROS会以Linux的形式为自己添加一些困难和烦人的基础工作。各种各样的人都会告诉你，“哦，学Linux就行了，没那么糟！“但有时候，这真的很糟糕，尤其是如果你想让你的机器人实现一些很棒的创意。
Since 2018, Microsoft has been working on getting ROS to run on Windows, the operating system used by those of us who mostly just want our computers to work without having to think about them all that much (a statement that Linux users will surely laugh at). For that to be really useful to the people who need it, though, there needs to be robot support, and today, Clearpath Robotics is adding ROS for Windows support to their fleet of friendly yellow and black ground robots.
自2018年以来，微软一直致力于让ROS在Windows上运行，Windows是我们这些人所使用的操作系统，大多数人只想让我们的电脑正常工作，而不必考虑太多（Linux用户肯定会嘲笑这一说法）。然而，要想让它真正对需要它的人有用，就需要机器人的支持，而今天，Clearpath机器人公司正在为他们的友好的黄色和黑色地面机器人车队添加rosforwindows支持。

A few interesting bits from the press release:
Engineering teams at Clearpath and Microsoft have worked together to bring support for ROS on Windows 10 IoT Enterprise and Windows 10 Desktop, to Clearpath robots, starting with Jackal UGV.
Windows offers various benefits which are applicable to robotics scenarios. Firstly, Windows provides multilayered security advances that protect deployments, detect anomalies and remediates issues through its enterprise-grade Windows security framework. Secondly, with Windows 10 IoT Enterprise and Azure IoT, users can take full advantage of cloud computing by offloading processes to the cloud or using cloud intelligence at the edge, for live decision making and autonomy. Finally, developers can utilize the same familiar toolsets and developer environments like Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code with extensions for ROS to expedite application development on ROS.
新闻稿中的一些有趣内容：
Clearpath和微软的工程团队合作，从Jackal UGV开始，将对windows10iot企业版和windows10桌面版上的ROS的支持带到Clearpath机器人上。
Windows提供了各种适用于机器人场景的好处。首先，Windows通过其企业级Windows安全框架提供了多层安全性改进，保护部署、检测异常并纠正问题。其次，使用Windows 10 IoT Enterprise和Azure IoT，用户可以通过将流程卸载到云端或在边缘使用云智能来充分利用云计算，从而实现实时决策和自治。最后，开发人员可以使用相同的工具集和开发人员环境，如visualstudio或带有ROS扩展的visualstudio代码，以加快ROS上的应用程序开发。
So far, this is just for the Clearpath Jackal, although Clearpath says that their other UGVs will be getting Windows support as well.
到目前为止，这只是针对Clearpath Jackal，尽管Clearpath说他们的其他UGV也将获得Windows支持。
Before you get too excited about all of this, keep in mind that running ROS on Windows is not yet what we’d call a streamlined experience. This is too bad, because one of the biggest potential benefits of ROS on Windows is for educational robots, where teachers and parents are going to have to get up to speed quickly (and troubleshoot somehow). It’s going to take a while to turn ROS for Windows into the magical Clippy-enabled experience that we all definitely want.
在你对这一切感到兴奋之前，请记住，在Windows上运行ROS还不是我们所说的流线型体验。这太糟糕了，因为Windows上的ROS最大的潜在好处之一是用于教育机器人，在那里老师和家长必须快速跟上速度（并以某种方式排除故障）。要把rosforwindows变成我们都想要的神奇Clippy体验还需要一段时间。
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