Open-source robot

"A robot is an autonomous machine capable of sensing its environment, carrying out computations to make decisions, and performing actions in the real world."<ref> IEEE. "What Is a Robot?" </ref>

A robot is "any automatically operated machine that replaces human effort, though it may not resemble human beings in appearance or perform functions in a humanlike manner."<ref> "Britannica: Robot". </ref>

Here at Open Circuits, we are most interested in open-source robotics. In particular, we are most interested in open designs for motor drivers and controller boards and all the other electronics that goes into a robot. We also find interesting open designs for rocker-bogie and other wheeled robot suspension arrangements, open designs for robot legs and arms and grippers, and open-source software intended to run on robot hardware as well as intended to be used to design improved robot hardware and electronics.

Complete robots already mentioned on Open Circuits

• Odroid XU4 Weeding Spraying Robot
• Vehicles such as quadcopters and other Multi-rotor flying machines often technically qualify as a robot.

Robot components already mentioned on Open Circuits

Motors, batteries, and the stuff between them:

• Servo control
• Motor driver
• Arduino Motor Workshop
• Instructables Stepper Links
• Battery

Sensors:

• Piezoelectric transducer often used for robot sonar.

Robot brains:

• Motherboards that run Linux are useful for robots that do any sort of visual processing or WiFi networking.
• Microcontrollers are useful for robots that balance or need any other sort of quick reflexes.
• Some robots use both.

possibly related pages

• Arduino Links mentions a few robots
• 3D Printed Mechanisms
• Tulsa electronics club mentions robotics clubs
• Kalman filter is used in highly dynamic robotic systems, such as balancing walking robots and multi-rotor helicopters

External links

• Electrical Engineering & Robotics Professor Dr. Carlotta A. Berry often discusses Open Source Hardware for robots in her blog https://www.noiresteminist.com/ and "Robotics for the Streets" videos https://www.youtube.com/@carlottaberry/videos
• A list of open-source, affordable, less-known, or visionary robotics projects: https://github.com/mjyc/awesome-robotics-projects
• Nybble, a palm-size Open Source Robotic Cat https://www.petoi.com/pages/nybble-cutest-bionic-robot-cat
• Bittle, a palm-size Open Source Robot Dog https://www.petoi.com/pages/bittle-open-source-bionic-robot-dog ( https://www.the-diy-life.com/meet-bittle-an-advanced-open-source-robot-dog-by-petoi/ )
• "9 open source robotics projects" https://opensource.com/life/16/4/open-source-robotics-projects
• "Open Source Stories" mentions several robots and other open-source hardware: https://www.redhat.com/en/open-source-stories