Robosoft out of Bidart, France is releasing the open source software version for its RobuBOX-Kompaï at-home assistance robot. The mobile platform includes navigation and communication capabilities and is now open to tinkering around by developers trying to extend the potential tasks the robot can perform.
Kompaï R&D is a modular and open robot, intended to develop assistance applications for use by dependent persons in their daily lives. RobuBOX-Kompaï provides functions such as speech recognition (for understanding simple orders, and to give a certain level of response), localization and navigation (for going from one place to another on demand or on its own initiative), communication (it is permanently connected to the Internet and all its services), automation (for personal monitoring, recognition of gestures and postures) …
Through the provision of this open source software (LGPL licence), anyone with a Kompaï R&D robot will benefit from the many basic functions that are already in place, and also be able to modify and adapt them, while developing new ones that can be shared with other research teams.
Press release: robuBOX-Kompaï now available in Open Source…
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