Thursday, June 17, 2010

What is an open robot?

   Today many robots are starting to become common in our everyday lives. In many homes across the country one could find machines some would call robots which clean floors wash our clothes and dishes. Most  new cars have more computers than the average house. It's not uncommon to carry computers in form of laptops or smart phones with us when we walk out the door to stay connected in this connected age. We send robots to other planets to explore for longer than we could hope to live on such a planet. Unmanned vehicles go deep into the ocean to drill for oil and sometimes to try to fix the plumbing when something goes afoul. Tele-robotic planes are already flown unmanned from locations all over the world.

Increasingly it is our belief that we should all have access to develop these machines. There will be a system for open development and collaboration of how should these machines be built and work together in the best ways possible.

The open robot platform is now in development. Many of the pieces are already here. It is being built with open source tools and can be developed, hacked, altered, improved. Open Robot is our attempt to build and synthesis a nervous system which could be useful to any machine that moves through and intelligently interacts with it's environment.

Open Robot.

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