Opensource is the key for robotics (Score 1)

Robots are entering daily life in Japan, good, but in USA and EU ? No. Today building a robot like a rover is not more complex than assembly a new PC. There are a lot of projects based on mini-itx and linux, and more, but only fews are finished. Problems are related to software side. Not all folks are able to develop a custom complex software in artificial vision area or neural networks. Hardware platforms are very differents so build a "big" opensource software is hard... the problem for me is releated to hardware, it's too closed. It's hard to find info for building a sensor array, how to connect them via I2C etc... If you are a coder with no or little knowledge about electronics building a robot is very hard due the lack of "open" on hardware side... and i don't see an easy solution What do you think about ?