Dexterous mobile robot runs Linux and ROS | Linux Today

Dexterous mobile robot runs Linux and ROS

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Eric Brown
Oct 21, 2013

A Willow Garage spinoff called Unbounded Robotics announced a mobile manipulation robot designed for research and business automation and due to ship next summer for $35,000. The UBR-1 runs Ubuntu Linux and Robot Operating System (ROS) on a 4th Generation Intel Core processor, has a 7 degrees-of-freedom arm with a dexterous gripper, and moves at speeds up to 1 meter per second.

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