Robot

In the present day, robots continue to serve as a primary area of interest for most manufacturers. Robots are in demand on a larger scale for their automation and efficiency features in the tread of growing digital workplaces. Robots have been a fascination for many for their accuracy and time-saving features. These reasons are turning people towards open-source platforms that are available for creating and designing a robot. We are here with five cool platforms which can enable you to create your own robots.

Poppy project 

Poppy is an open-source platform for the creation, use, and sharing of interactive 3D printed robots. Poppy is an interdisciplinary community of beginners, experts, scientists, educators, developers, and artists who share a similar vision. The platform develops robotic creations that are easy to build, customize, deploy and share easily. It promotes open-source by sharing hardware, software, and web tools. Some of the famous poppy robots are Poppy Humanoid, Poppy Torso, Ergo Jr, and Poppy Humanoid Beta.

Webots

Webots is an open-source platform used to stimulate robots. It provides a complete development environment to model, program, and simulate robots. It has been designed for professional use and is widely used in industry, education, and research. Cyberbotics Ltd. has maintained Webots as its main product since 1998. Webots core is based on the combination of modern GUI, a physics engine, and an OpenGL 3.3 rendering engine. Robots can be programmed in C, C++, Python, Java, MATLAB with a simple API covering all the basic robotic needs.

Wandelbots

Wanderbots enables everyone to work with industrial robots easily and faster without writing a single line of code. Using Wandelbots Teaching, 3 simple steps are needed to execute a robot path to teach, refine and execute. The applications of the platform consist of welding, gluing, grinding, spray-painting, inspection, and pick and place. This enables for building independent robot programming, saves time, and acts as one platform for all robot brands.

Otto DIY

Otto DIY is an open-source robot with an epic personality that allows it to build a robot. The platform guides through videos to build Otto, code it using intuitive block-based visual programming software. It allows you to print a 3D robot that is completely free. You can make your robot dance with its Bluetooth app and design your own robot with modern #D CAD modeling tools.

Linorobot 

Linorobot is a suite of open source ROS-compatible robots that aim to provide students, developers, and researchers a low-cost platform in creating new existing applications on top of ROS. Linorobot supports different robot bases you can build from the ground level.