
Reasons You Should Opt for an Open Source Robot
Acquiring a new robot is a very exciting event. A Researcher looks forward to programming it, putting it to work and seeing what it can do. That is not as easy or fast as it sounds. You could spend hours on it before it can even make a movement.
Once it is working, the next stage is to develop software and features and try out a few new ideas you have. This is where you encounter an obstacle. The open system does not admit modifications as that may mean going beyond the robot system’s original capabilities.
Should that happen, you may have to contact the manufacturer and hope they will be open to you accessing their robot software. Alternatively, you will have to go for a new robotic system. That is a lot of time wasted.
Open-Sourced Systems
To avoid having to waste precious t...