Arduino Robot: an open platform for building robots

The company Arduino announced a new family of engineering boards and released a ready-made designer Arduino Robot to assemble robots. As usual, the designer does not require soldering, is assembled without special tools. The entire system is open, easily programmable via USB and supports the connection of various peripheral devices. The central display connects to the upper control board.

The round Arduino Robot, about 10 cm high and about 19 cm in diameter, looks like a robot vacuum cleaner, but in reality these are two motherboards (control and motor), each of which runs on an ATmega32u4 microcontroller and supports the connection of various equipment.

Control card

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Motor board

Arduino software is required to program the robot, for more information, see the beginner's guide and examples .

Designer sales will begin in July at $ 275.

In addition to the designer Arduino Robot, begins the release of engineering boards for robotics. The first board in the set is Arduino Yún ($ 69) with WiFi support running Linino, a special version of the OpenWRT firmware. You can manage this card wirelessly, and it already supports more than 100 software interfaces for accessing Twitter, Facebook, PayPal, FedEx and other web services.