Open Robotics Debuts at Penguicon 3.0

thgreatoz writes "While attending Penguicon 3.0 in Novi, MI, I came across an interesting project. Matt Switlik of Swittech aims to do for robotics what the GPL did for Open Source Software - a completely open robotics platform. Dubbed the Open Robotics Peripheral Platform, or O.R.P.P, Switlik and his partner Jason Hunt have taken a completely modular approach to robotics, with the goal of making robot development as easy as homegrowing a PC. Will we see fleets of ORPP robots plowing our streets and mowing our lawns in the future?"

Comments

Re:3 Laws

[Stibidor]

I'm not sure that whoever marked my original post as "Interesting" understood that I was just being silly. There's no doubt the 3 laws are way beyond today's reality.

Reading over my original post, I suppose it isn't really clear that I wasn't serious. That's what I get for ignoring the "Preview" button. Doh!

There are others

[Wayne Gramlich]

Here's one:

http://oap.sourceforge.net/

Here's another (warning only 128 kbps uplink):

http://gramlich.net/projects/robobricks/index.html

It sure would be nice if people who start these projects would shoot a message off to the comp.robotics.misc news group to try and minimize overlap. The current state of affairs is that there are plenty of projects and very little of the hardware from the projects is interoperable.

-Wayne

Disclaimer: The last URL is mine and I started it back in 1998.

Other tools

[pooya]

Hmm, That is not the first one, there are lots of other tools around, the most famous one Player/Stage has a well developed architecture and many universities, companies and people around the world are using that.

More Pictures and Movies!

[william_lorenz]

I was at Penguicon 3.0 and have pictures and movies of it here, here, here, and here!