What is Robotics?
Robotics is the science and technology of robots, and their design, manufacture, and application. Robotics is related to electronics, mechanics, and software.[Robotics at Wikipedia]
Robotics links
Robotics companies: parts and supplies
- Acroname
US based robotics company
- Antratek
European supplier for electronics and robotics
- Conrad
European internet store for electronics and robotics parts and much more
- Parallax
US based supplier of electronics (most famous for BASIC Stamp) and robotics parts
- Lynxmotion
US based supplier of robotics kits (for example hexapods and robotic arms)
- SparkFun
US based supplier of all kinds of electronics parts
Robotics companies: Industrial and personal robotics
Robotics companies: sensors
Robotics software and libraries
- Orocos
“Orocos” is the acronym of the Open Robot Control Software project. The project's aim is to develop a general-purpose, free software, and modular framework for robot and machine control. The Orocos project supports 4 C++ libraries: the Real-Time Toolkit, the Kinematics and Dynamics Library, the Bayesian Filtering Library and the Orocos Component Library.
- ROS
ROS is an open-source, meta-operating system for your robot. It provides the services you would expect from an operating system, including hardware abstraction, low-level device control, implementation of commonly-used functionality, message-passing between processes, and package management.
- Urbi
Urbi is a middleware which includes a component architecture (UObject), and script language (urbiscript) and several graphical programming tools (urbiStudio). The heart of the technology is based on urbiscript, the new script language that brings totally new features in terms of parallelism, event-based programming and distributed object management with UObject. All this with a familiar C++ like syntax that makes it easy to learn.
Robotics news and information
Robotics organizations
Robotics conferences and seminars
- IROS 2010
International conference on Intelligent Robots and system. In 2010 it is being held in Taipei, Taiwan.
- ICRA 2010
International conference on robotics and automation. In 2010 it is being held in Anchorage, Alaska.
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