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.
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TurtleBot3 Providers
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TurtleBot3 Partners and Research Collaborators
* Each collaboration member’s web page can be found here.
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TurtleBot3 Distributors
* Each collaboration member’s web page can be found here.
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TurtleBot3 Map
Notices
Check out these ROS and TurtleBot3 Publications:
- 09/06/2021 TurtleBot3 has been upgraded with Raspberry Pi 4!!!
- 05/28/2021 TurtleBot3 Autorace 2020 now runs with ROS Noetic
- 05/24/2021 ROS 2 Galactic Geochelone Release
- 12/20/2020 Webots supports TurtleBot3 with ROS 2 Foxy
- 10/15/2020 ROS 2 Foxy Release
- 08/21/2019 ROS 2 Dashing Release
- 08/20/2019 Navigation2 Dashing release - demo video
- 02/01/2019 Announcing new packages for TurtleBot3 in ROS2 (including Cartographer and Navigation2)
- 12/17/2018 ros2arduino released: Arduino library for communicating with ROS 2
- 09/21/2018 XEL Network first application + Distributing XEL devices 100 set for free in ROScon2018!
- 09/13/2018 Introducing the XEL Network : Modular H/W ecosystem over ROS2
- 09/05/2018 Introducing ROS2 Tutorials
- 08/08/2018 Machine Learning tutorial
- 08/08/2018 TurtleBot3 AutoRace in ROS Development Studio
- 08/07/2018 Tutorial for Task Mission in ROS Development Studio
- 07/18/2018 New ROS Online Course for Beginner
- 07/03/2018 TurtleBot3 AutoRace with Gazebo
- 05/25/2018 Announcing TurtleBot3 Software(v1.0.0) and Firmware(v1.2.0) Update
- 05/21/2018 Reinforcement Learning with TB3!
- 05/16/2018 1 Year of TurtleBot3: Call for Collaboration (by 23 MAY)
- 05/11/2018 TurtleBot3 with OpenMANIPULATOR is released
- 04/27/2018 Awesome TurtleBot3 Projects like BallBot Project
- 04/20/2018 TurtleBot3 Automatic Parking under AR detection
- 03/29/2018 TurtleBot3 AutoRace 2017 Tutorial & Source Codes released
- 03/17/2018 TurtleBot3 Auto project
- 03/15/2018 Gazebo Simulation
- 02/19/2018 Waffle Pi Launching Event!
- 02/08/2018 ROS Robot Programming, A Handbook is written by TurtleBot3 Developers
- 02/02/2018 How to use LDS-01 of TurtleBot3
- 01/30/2018 TurtleBot3 Basic operation demo
- 01/26/2018 TurtleBot3 projects in KAIST
- 01/18/2018 TurtleBot3 Software, Firware Update
- 01/17/2018 TurtleBot3 Automatic parking demo
- 11/07/2017 ARM TechCon: Best Contribution to an Open-Source Software Project
- 09/20/2017 TurtleBot3 AutoRace 2017 teaser #2
- 09/13/2017 TurtleBot3 AutoRace 2017 teaser #1
- 07/31/2017 TurtleBot3 Burger Assembly Video
- 06/07/2017 TurtleBot3 Follow Demo
- 05/29/2017 Exhibition, Party, and Tutorials with TurtleBot3 at ICRA2017
- 05/11/2017 TurtleBot3 Early-Bird Discount Offer (until May 29)
- 05/08/2017 Don’t miss FREE TB3 Burger event!
- 05/08/2017 Very informative and detailed review by Erico Guizzo and Evan Ackerman
- 04/24/2017 TurtleBot3 Friends
- 04/12/2017 TurtleBot3 with Laser Distance Sensor (LDS)
- 04/05/2017 Gazebo simulator
- 03/21/2017 TurtleBot3 official wiki site (technical information)
- 03/15/2017 TurtleBot3 with OpenCR
- 03/08/2017 TurtleBot3 Hardware: Free for YOU!
- 03/01/2017 TurtleBot3 Auto project
- 02/21/2017 TurtleBot3 RoadTrain
- 02/01/2017 TurtleBot3 Segway
- 01/25/2017 Assembling the TurtleBot3
- 01/17/2017 TurtleBot3 Tank
- 12/28/2016 TurtleBot3 Omni wheel and Mecanum wheel Example
- 12/23/2016 TurtleBot3 Autonomous Car
- 12/21/2016 The TurtleBot3 - The Journey of the Turtlebot with R2D2
- 12/13/2016 The TurtleBot3 Example #10 The Journey of the Turtlebot
- 12/05/2016 SLAM with the TurtleBot3
- 11/23/2016 The TurtleBot3 Teleoperation Example
- 11/21/2016 The TurtleBot3 Example #01 Parallel Translation with 4 Joints and 4 Wheels
- 11/16/2016 Payload Test of TurtleBot3
- 10/13/2016 Announcing TurtleBot3
Click to expand recent news.
- 11/12/2020 ROS World 2020: ROBOTIS TurtleBot3 Parallel Session
- 07/22/2019 Top 10 ROS-based robotics companies in 2019, The Robot Report
- 12/10/2018 Robot Gift Guide 2018, IEEE Spectrum
- 11/26/2018 AWS RoboMaker – Develop, Test, Deploy, and Manage Intelligent Robotics Apps, AWS News Blog
- 10/01/2018 Microsoft Announces Experimental Release of ROS for Windows 10, IEEE Spectrum
- 09/29/2018 “XEL Network : modular H/W ecosystem using ROS2” on ROSCon2018, PDF, Video
- 09/14/2018 “Introduction of Open Robot Platform: mobile robot, manipulator, humanoid, hand” on ROSCon JP 2018, PDF, Video
- 07/06/2018 Video Friday: Roboy, AI Ethics, and Big Clapper
- 02/02/2018 Video Friday: Waffle Robots, Laser vs. Drone, and TurtleBot Tutorials, IEEE Spectrum
- 11/30/2017 Robot Gift Guide 2017, IEEE Spectrum
- 11/07/2017 10 Memorable ROS-based Robots, Robotics Trends
- 11/07/2017 TurtleBot 3 and Friends: A Lower Barrier of Entry for Exploring A.I. Robotics, ThomasNet
- 10/24/2017 Announcing the Arm TechCon Innovation Award Finalists, arm TechCon
- 10/13/2017 Top 10 Open Source Linux Robots, Linux.com
- 09/22/2017 “TurtleBot3 AutoRace” on ROSCon2017, PDF, Video
- 09/21/2017 “Introducing OpenMANIPULATOR; the full open robot platform” on ROSCon2017, PDF, Video
- 07/16/2017 The TurtleBot3 Teacher: Learn the ROS platform with this robot kit, IEEE Spectrum
- 06/16/2017 Turtlebot3, the Open Source Ubuntu/ROS-Based Robot Kit, Open Electronics
- 06/14/2017 Open Source TurtleBot 3 Robot Kit Runs Ubuntu and ROS on Raspberry Pi, Linux.com
- 06/09/2017 Ubuntu-driven TurtleBot gets a major rev with a Pi or Joule in the driver’s seat, LinuxGizmos.com
- 05/31/2017 The Turtlebot 3 has launched, Ubuntu
- 05/29/2017 All the Latest, Most Exciting Robotics Research From ICRA 2017, IEEE Spectrum
- 05/17/2017 The Silicon Valley Startup Creating Robot DNA, Bloomberg
- 05/02/2017 Hands-on With TurtleBot 3, a Powerful Little Robot for Learning ROS, IEEE Spectrum
- 12/28/2016 Celebrating 9 Years of ROS, ROBOHUB
- 10/13/2016 Advances in robotics made easier by forthcoming 3D printed TurtleBot, 3D Printing Industry
- 10/12/2016 Robotis and OSRF Announce TurtleBot 3: Smaller, Cheaper, and Modular, IEEE Spectrum
- 09/21/2016 “Introducing the Turtlebot3” on ROSCon2016, PDF, Video
- 03/26/2013 TurtleBot Inventors Tell Us Everything About the Robot, IEEE Spectrum