Gostai, the editor of innovative software for robotics & AI, is pleased to announce that its core Urbi technology is opening its code base to the open source community.
Read more »peekabot—3-D Robotic Visualization
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According to the peekabot project's Web site: "peekabot is a distributed real-time 3-D visualization tool for robotics researchers and developers, written in C++. Its purpose is to simplify the visualization needs faced by a roboticist daily—using visualization as a debugging aid or making fancy slides for a presentation, for example.
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Robot Submarine Wins with Debian
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A robotic submarine driven by Debian has won first place in the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) competition run at a U.S. Naval facility. The Debian project lauds the participating undergrads from Cornell University.
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"World's smallest humanoid robot" runs Linux
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A popular talking toy robot from Tomy Corp. runs Linux on a PXA-270-based single-board computer (SBC) from Mobisense Systems. The 6.5-inch tall i-Sobot has been dubbed "the smallest humanoid robot in production" by Guinness World Records, says Tomy.
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LATIN AMERICA: Campus Party to Bridge Digital Gap
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"...One of them is Diego Saravia from Argentina, who says free software is not only indispensable for narrowing the digital gap but is « the only way to use it in an ethical manner. We are talking about freedom of knowledge, so that human beings can acquire the necessary tools for surviving in the world that is emerging.» ..."
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Do Open Source Robots Dream of Electric Sheep?
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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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Open source robot: your next personal assistant
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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.
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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.
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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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Free voice recognition software that works
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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.
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