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Overview

Rasbperry Pi 4
The TurtleBot3 platform has been upgraded to include the Raspberry Pi 4 as the standard onboard SBC.

Jetson Nano
TurtleBot3 Hardware also supports the use of the Nvidia Jetson Nano SBC.
Please refer to the video below in order to set up a Jetson Nano for use with a TurtleBot3.
The Jetson Nano Developer Kit setup instructions must be completed prior to preparation for TurtleBot3 useage.

What is TurtleBot?

TurtleBot is a standardized robotic platform developed for ROS education and research. The concept of the TurtleBot platform is derived from Turtle robots used to teach foundational robotics and computer science since the early 1940s. TurtleBot is designed as a simplified, easily upgradable platform to teach people who are new to ROS, and to provide a capable base system for more advanced development. Since it’s inception TurtleBot has become the standard educational ROS platform, as well as the most popular robotics platform among developers and students worldwide.

There are 4 versions of the TurtleBot available now. TurtleBot1 was developed by Tully (Platform Manager at Open Robotics) and Melonee (CEO of Fetch Robotics) at Willow Garage on top of the iRobot’s Roomba-based research robot, Create, for ROS deployment. It was developed in 2010 and has been on sale since 2011. In 2012, TurtleBot2 was developed by Yujin Robot based on the research robot, iClebo Kobuki. In 2017, TurtleBot3 was developed by ROBOTIS as an improved modular design to supplement the function of its predecessors, and the demands of users. The TurtleBot4, developed by ClearPath Robotics features an iRobot Create3 base as a less modular alternative to the TurtleBot3 platform. For more information on the TurtleBot series, visit the official TurtleBot Website for a full history of the platform.

The TurtleBot3 in specific is a small, affordable, and customizable, ROS-based mobile robot for use in education, research, hobby projects, and product prototyping. The goal of TurtleBot3 is to provide a low cost, highly flexible robotics development platform without having to sacrifice functionality and quality, while at the same time offering enough expandability to fit a wide variety of complex robotics applications. The TurtleBot3 can be customized in various ways using simple mechanical components and through the use of upgraded electronic components including custom computers and sensors. In addition, the TurtleBot3 has continued to evolve it’s out of the box performance by continually upgrading the included cost-effective and small-sized SBC suitable for robust embedded systems. The TurtleBot3’s core technology of SLAM, Navigation and Manipulation makes it suitable for a wide variety of research and service robotics applications.

How to contribute to ROS and TurtleBot?

TurtleBot3 is a collaborative project…

TurtleBot3 is a collaborative project between Open Robotics, ROBOTIS, and many more partners including The Construct, Intel, Onshape, OROCA, AuTURBO, ROS in Robotclub Malaysia, Astana Digital, Polariant Experiment, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, GVlab, Networked Control Robotics Lab at National Chiao Tung University, SIM Group at TU Darmstadt. Open Robotics is in charge of software and community activities, while ROBOTIS is in charge of manufacturing and global distribution.

The most important part of the TurtleBot3 collaboration project is the open source based software, hardware, and community around the platform. As such, ROBOTIS is always encouraging more partners and research collaborators to participate in this project to enrich the robotics field as a whole.

If you are interested in partnership with us to continue to further the development of open source robotics, please fill out this form to learn more about how we can work together.

  • TurtleBot3 Providers

  • TurtleBot3 Partners and Research Collaborators

    * Each collaboration member’s web page can be found here.

  • TurtleBot3 Distributors

    * Each collaboration member’s web page can be found here.

  • TurtleBot3 Map

Notices

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