Robotic Software Platform Behind Projects Like Segway RMP, Lego Mindstorm Going

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 13, 2010

[ Thanks to kiterunner for this link.
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“Yet another important project is going open source.
This time, it is the popular robotic software platform called Urbi.
Widely popular robotic projects like Segway RMP, Lego Mindstorm,
Aldebaran Nao etc. runs on Urbi robotic software platform.

“Urbi Robotic Software Platform

“Urbi is a software platform to control robots or complex
systems in general. It includes a C++ component library called
UObject that comes with a robot standard API to describe motors,
sensors and algorithms. This awesome technology is now open source
with an GNU AGPLv3 license.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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