23 Oct '12, 12am

TurtleBot 2.0 Now Available for Preorder from Clearpath Robotics

Our first run-in with the TurtleBot 2 was back in May at ROSCon, and since then, things have been quiet. Lots of work has been going on behind the scenes though, and today, Clearpath Robotics is announcing that they've (finally!) gotten the TurtleBot 2 up for pre-order. Looks good, huh? The only real difference we're seeing from the prototype is that instead of using an Asus Xtion sensor, TurtleBot 2 is sticking with a Microsoft Kinect. Kinect is almost exactly the same, and the reason not to make the switch is that everyone already uses Kinect, it has full ROS support, and keeping it around makes everything completely backwards compatible. Just because it's all backwards compatible doesn't mean that it's not worth upgrading: here's a rundown of what makes the TurtleBot 2 significantly better than the Turtlebot 1: The iRobot Create has been switched to a Yujin Robot Kobuki...

Full article: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/diy/turtlebot...

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