Learn ROS

The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a flexible framework for writing robot software. It is a collection of tools, libraries, and conventions that aim to simplify the task of creating complex and robust robot behavior across a wide variety of robotic platforms. In our experience, research in robotics at the moment *and* deployment in many real-life systems is highly centered around ROS. This is not to say that one must use ROS for doing robotics. But it is definately a very viable choice! There is a massive community around and this is not by chance. Thus, we here collected some selected resources on how to go about learning to use, work and code in the Robot Operating System.
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Courses on ROS

• Programming for Robotics - ROS, ETH Zurich - Direct Link
• Robot Learning - Cornell University - Direct Link
• Robot Programming, Sapienza university of Rome - Direct Link
• Embedded Systems in Robotics - Direct Link
• Robotics, University of Pennsylvania - Direct Link 

Note: Many more courses are available! Check here for a more comprehensive list: http://wiki.ros.org/Courses 
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Programming Tutorials

• Install ROS, ros.org - Direct Link
• Official ROS Tutorials, ros.org - Direct Link

Note: Many more exist! Please search online. ​
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If you prefer a book

• A Gentle Introduction to ROS, Jason M. O' Kane - Direct Link

Note: Many more exist! Please search online. 
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Fancy a paper? 

• Quigley, M., Conley, K., Gerkey, B., Faust, J., Foote, T., Leibs, J., Wheeler, R. and Ng, A.Y., 2009, May. ROS: an open-source Robot Operating System. In ICRA workshop on open source software (Vol. 3, No. 3.2, p. 5). - Direct Link

This is not the only paper about ROS. But it is a fundamental one. 

Robots with ROS

Note: These are indicative videos form our work as a lab. Search online and you will find many more cool robots that use ROS.