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The Player Project (formerly the '''Player/Stage Project''' or '''Player/Stage/Gazebo Project''') is a project to create Free Software for research into Robotics and Sensor systems. Its components include the ''Player'' network server and ''Stage'' and ''Gazebo'' robot platform simulators. Although accurate statistics are hard to obtain, Player is probably the most-used robot interface in research and post-secondary education. Most of the major intelligent robotics journals and conferences regularly publish papers featuring real and simulated robot experiments using Player, Stage and Gazebo. These run on with documentation under the GNU Free Documentation License . Features include: robot platform independence across a wide variety of hardware,http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/doc/Player-cvs/player/supported_hardware.html support for a number of programming languages including C , C++ , Java , Tcl , and Python , a minimal and flexible design, support for multiple devices on the same interface, and On-the-fly server configuration. Microsoft Robotics Studio , released in 2007, offers many similar functions, but is Windows-only, and has different licensing conditions. URBI , released in 2003, offers also similar functions. It is cross-platform and interfaced with Player. Licensing is a dual GPL /proprietary approach. SEE ALSO
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