| Logo Caption: | TurtleBot Logo |
| Logo Alt: | TurtleBot |
| Family: | ROS |
| Developer: | Community |
| Source Model: | open source, open source hardware |
| Frequently Updated: | yes |
| Marketing Target: | Personal robots, mobile robots |
| Ui: | Many |
| Programmed In: | Various (Notably C++ and Python) |
| Prog Language: | Many |
| License: | BSD, OSHW Statement of Principles and Definition v1.0 |
| Working State: | Current (TurtleBot 2) |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Date: | July 2014 |
TurtleBot is a personal robot kit with open source software. It was created at Willow Garage by Melonee Wise and Tully Foote in November 2010.
TurtleBot 1 consists of an iRobot Create base, a 3000 mAh battery pack, a TurtleBot power board with gyro, a Kinect sensor, an Asus 1215N laptop with a dual core processor, and a hardware mounting kit. The hardware mounting kit enables other sensors to be added afterwards.
TurtleBot 2 received numerous upgrades to its predecessor. A YUJIN Kobuki mobile serves as its base outfitted with a 2200 mAh battery. The Kinect sensor and Asus 1215N laptop are reused from the TurtleBot 1. Turtlebot 2's package included a fast charger to decrease time between deployments.
The TurtleBot 2 also features the a hardware mounting kit (similar to the previous generation) allowing for additional sensors to be added more easily as needed. The improvements to the TurtleBot 2 make it a more versatile starting point for prototyping and exploring robotics applications.
TurtleBot 3 has additional structural expansion capabilities due to the ROBOTIS’ modular structure along with the DYNAMIXEL.
TurtleBot 4 is using an iRobot Create3 robot as a base with a compute and sensor package consisting of a Raspberry PI 4, a LiDAR Scanner, and a RGB-D camera.
TurtleBot has been used in multi-robot research and human robot interaction research.[1] TurtleBot has also been used by universities teaching introductory robotics courses.[2] [3] [4]
TurtleBot is a licensed trademark that is maintained by the Open Source Robotics Foundation. The Open Source Robotics Foundation licenses the use of the TurtleBot trademark for manufacturing and distributing TurtleBot branded products.[5]