This chapter was an introductory chapter to get you started with robotics application development using ROS. The main aim of this chapter was to get you started with ROS by installing and understanding it. This chapter can be used as a kick-start guide for ROS application development and can help you understand the following chapters, which mainly demonstrate ROS-based applications. At the end of this chapter, we saw job and research opportunities related to ROS and saw that a lot of companies and universities are looking for ROS developers for different robotics applications.

From the next chapter onward, we will discuss ROS-2 and its capabilities.