Comment by bpg_92

The whole ROS ecosystem is huge, most of research platform robots are ROS enabled. Check the PR2 (http://wiki.ros.org/Robots/PR2), Turtlebot (https://www.turtlebot.com/), the Nao series (http://wiki.ros.org/nao), even Boston Dynamic's Atlas robot (http://gazebosim.org/tutorials?tut=drcsim_atlas_siminterface...) or Nasa's Robonaut (http://wiki.ros.org/Robots/Robonaut2).

It facilitates work by not having to rewrite a bunch of code every time. Also, most robotic related libraries like OMP, or TF are supported.