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.
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A pretty cool open-source robot
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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 »Personal robots coming, study finds
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The personal robot market will be worth $15 billion annually by 2015, according to an ABI report. Most personal robots shipping today use proprietary OSes, although Linux is slowly migrating from the commercial to the consumer robot market, according to an ABI analyst.
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Tux Droid for Linux lovers
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A talking penguin is the latest Linux loving gadget to hit the market.
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Robot software platform shootout!
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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.
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