TurtleBot is a

personal robot A personal robot is one whose human interface and design make it useful for individuals. This is by contrast to industrial robots which are generally configured and operated by robotics specialists. A personal robot is one that enables an individ ...

kit with open source software. It was created at

Willow Garage Willow Garage was a robotics research lab and technology incubator devoted to developing hardware and open source software for personal robotics applications. The company was most likely best known for its open source software suite ROS (Robot ...

by Melonee Wise and Tully Foote in November 2010. The TurtleBot kit consists of a mobile base, 3D Sensor,

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, and the TurtleBot mounting hardware kit. In addition to the kit, the TurtleBot SDK is available online.

Technology

TurtleBot 1

TurtleBot 1 consists of an

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base, a 3000 mAh battery pack, a TurtleBot power board with gyro, a Kinect sensor, an Asus 1215N laptop with a dual core processor, and a hardware mounting kit attaching everything together and adding future sensors.

TurtleBot 2

TurtleBot 2 consists of a
YUJIN Kobuki base
a 2200 mAh battery pack, a Kinect sensor, an Asus 1215N laptop with a dual core processor, fast charger, and a hardware mounting kit attaching everything together and adding future sensors.

TurtleBot 3

Turtlebot 3, announced and developed in collaboration with

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and Open Source Robotics Foundation, is the smallest and cheapest of its generation. It has outstanding structural expansion capability due to ROBOTIS’ renowned modular structure with the DYNAMIXEL.

Community

TurtleBot has been used by research labs for doing multi-robot research and human robot interaction research.Many universities are also using the TurtleBot to teach introductory robotics courses.

Licensing

TurtleBot is a licensed trademark that is maintained by the Open Source Robotics Foundation. The Open Source Robotics Foundation licenses the use of the TurtleBot trademark for manufacturing and distributing TurtleBot branded products.

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.turtlebot.com/
TurtleBot Google+

TurtleBot Youtube Channel

TurtleBot GitHub - START CONTRIBUTING!

Robotis and OSRF Announce TurtleBot 3: Smaller, Cheaper, and Modular

Hands-on With TurtleBot 3, a Powerful Little Robot for Learning ROS
Open-source robots