Care-O-bot 3 Goes Open Source

Writing by Greg Intermaggio on Monday, 22 of February , 2010 at 4:48 am

Back in 2008, we introduced you to Care-O-bot 3 from Fraunhofer IPA, the lovable lil robot that’s missing a limb. Well, Fraunhofer IPA recently open-sourced their software:

The Care-O-bot 3 software platform was recently ported to ROS and is fully available as open source. You can now go to the ROS.org wiki and find documentation on the many software packages that they’ve released.

This is great news! Developers will now be able to collaborate in making these robots do some truly amazing things, like accurate object recognition, which is becoming increasingly prevalent in consumer robotics as technologies develop. In Care-O-bot 3′s case, objects are first scanned in 3 dimensions via a camera in the head. Once the bot has a 3d image saved, it can compare that saved image to live images from its camera, to determine which object is which:

Congratulations to Fraunhofer IPA! It’s hard not to win in open sourcing software, wouldn’t you agree?

[ Fraunhofer IPA ] VIA [ Willow Garage ]

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