We don't yet have robots quite as advanced as Star Wars' C3PO or some of the robots seen in the sci-fi flick Blade Runner, but did you know that there is an open source effort underway to produce them? Well, sort of. RobotCub is a site that houses an open source software repository and many other resources that open source developers are using to advance a humanoid baby robot, dubbed iCub.
Read more »Do Open Source Robots Dream of Electric Sheep?
http://ostatic.com –
Category: Industry Tags:
Open source robot: your next personal assistant
http://www.linuxworld.com –
Imagine a robot that hands you a beer and then cleans your kitchen and living room. That's what a start-up called Willow Garage in Menlo Park, Calif., is busy developing.
Read more »
Category: Industry Tags:
A pretty cool open-source robot
http://www.thestandard.com –
A California startup is working with the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Robot project to create an open-source robot. The demo version can do some neat stuff, but the real payoff will come once the AI is perfected and it leaves the labs.
Read more »Robot software platform shootout!
http://www.linuxdevices.com –
Today's nascent robotics market has engendered about 10 general-purpose software development frameworks, including nine supporting Linux. This article surveys seven aimed at service robots, and three at industrial robots, concluding with an analysis of market trends likely to shape tomorrow's robotics software landscape.
Read more »
Free voice recognition software that works
http://smart-machines.blogspot.com –
If you are considering adding voice recognition to your AI or robotics project then you are probably looking for a free implementation that works well.
Read more »
