Welcome to the Robotics community

Fresh news

2005 Feb 04: There will be at least two presentations about robotics at JavaOne in SanFrancisco, May 15-18. BOF-0503 entitled "Java™ Technology in An Intelligent Swarm of Heterogeneous Lego Robots " and BOF-0509 entitled "Hacking Vex Robotics by Adding a Smart Java™ Technology Brain ". Both of these BOFs are represented by several projects here at java.net. Two student teams and others are collaborating on these at the University of Utah -- see the JSwarm and SonarMotion projects for more details.

Our focus is to foster dialog and active, useful robotics projects which take advantage of the easy code sharing, scalability, encapsulation, and other benefits of Java. We welcome your participation and contributions.

Semi-recent news

Robotics Community at java.net was brought to life in the middle of JavaOne 2005, at which there were two Technical Sessions dealing with robotics: TS7188 and TS1464

2005 Oct 6-9, several Robotics community members participated in Robonexus in San Jose, CA, USA. This is the second and last year (for a while, at least) for RoboNexus on the west coast -- next year it moves to Boston. Jim Wright's wonderful JavaNator Sumo bots (powered by JStamp) appeared in public competitions Fri, Sat and Sun, probably for the last time - they are entering retirement.

Robotics API Sonar Motion project is under way
Students at the University of Utah are collaborating on a package to extract velocity information from a stream of sonar data.

Robotics Application Framework
RSCL provides a framework to develop applications to simulate and control a mobile robot. It has been used successfully with vastly different medium sized (~150 lb) autonomous ground vehicles.

Java.net Robotics response to OMG Robotics RFI
Community members are working on a response to the Object Management Group request for information on the topic of robotics standards.

Robotics Terminology
Tired of hearing robotics terms mangled by the public media? So are we, and we couldn't find a reliable reference for them. Hence: this project.