ROS

The total number of ROS packages downloaded increased 7.45%. ROS 2 accounted for 39.82% as a percentage of all ROS downloads in 2022.

[https://answers.ros.org/questions/](https://answers.ros.org/questions/) [https://discourse.ros.org/](https://discourse.ros.org/) [http://packages.ros.org/](http://packages.ros.org/) [https://wiki.ros.org/](https://wiki.ros.org/) [https://index.ros.org/](https://index.ros.org/) This helps to explain the change in documentation usage patterns. [http://docs.ros.org/](http://docs.ros.org/) [published statistics from 2022](https://discourse.ros.org/t/2022-ros-metrics-report/29594), and there were a few notable trends: [ROS](https://www.therobotreport.com/?s=ROS)is gaining in popularity as an operating system for robotics. Overall, total users were up 33% year-over-year. The actual number of robots that use ROS is hard to determine, but there ROS.org maintains a [page that lists ROS-based solutions](https://robots.ros.org/). ROS has a number of resources available for community support and documentation. ROS 2 had a 54.46% increase in package downloads YoY.