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This is what I have learned so far, ROS is very easy to install! It installs in minutes on an Ubuntu desktop PC and installs just as quickly on an Apache server running on Ubuntu. I did some very preliminary tests on an Apache server and ROS responded correctly. I still have some experimenting to do as far as installing the system on an Ubuntu based cloud but the digging around that I have done points to the fact that this operating system will indeed run in a cloud environment provided that the cloud is setup appropriately. (Since I am a newbie to ROS please correct me if I'm wrong.)

Now what about deploying from an Internet server or cloud? I think that may prove to be a wee bit more challenging as far as a user interface goes, but less challenging than actually building the robot itself. My thoughts are this, imagine jumping from a relatively simple WiFi controlled bot to bots that can be controlled from the other side of the planet relatively inexpensively? From what I am seeing so far, I'm pretty sure that with ROS this can easily be accomplished.