We’re saving you from cables and all complexity. Roboting is interchangeable part robotics development system. It’s designed for both hobbyists and developers. Everything is open-sourced and 3D printable.

With Roboting, you might easily snap variety of modules together, to build your dream robot. Your Roboting story begins with a base module. It can be a tank drive, car, hovercraft or even a boat! Then, it finds personality with mission modules. These are robotic arms, range finders, surveillance kits or object throwers. Finally, surround modules add sensing capabilities to your robot, with distance sensors, GPS and compass modules. Everything is plug and play.

Now, it’s time to play with your robot. It’s easy to control Roboting with Kinect®, Leap Motion®, Gamepad or mobile devices without any technical experience. It’s just like playing with an R/C car.

If you’re a programmer, you’re welcome to use our API’s to program Roboting®. Even you may use your own Arduino® or .NET Micro Framework boards. Roboting accepts all.

You might want to buy Roboting modules as a final product, or download STL files to 3D print your very own robot.

We’re trying our hardest to make Roboting ready before 2014 ends!

Here is the Roboting!

We’re living in connected devices era, where more and more devices get IP addresses every day. Our robots deserve that too. In Roboting, we’re orchestrating hardware, software, and cloud perfectly, hence you’ll get the ultimate connected device. Let’s take a look at how we’re connecting these things.

H for Hardware

Customizing your own robot is so easy with Roboting. We have three parts.

Base Modules

These are the bodies of your robot. Each module has its own characteristics and easily upgradable parts. We have three base modules now, and more bases will be added to our inventory soon. Our current base modules are:

Car: Like an R/C car, but there is more. The car module has 4 motor slots, so you are free to choose from DC and brushless motors. We have also steering servo kit options for the front wheels.

Boat: Have you ever imagined a robot on the water? It's possible with Roboting! The boat has upgradable motors, interchangeable sensor and mission modules.

Hovercraft: With its air pressured body, hovercraft makes the robot move on both land and water.

Mission Modules

Here is the fun factor comes! These modules add main mission functionality to your robot. They are plug and play, so Roboting automatically detects and sets the modules. Now we have three mission modules and working on others.

Robotic Arm: For grabbing and moving things, we have 3 DOF and one grabber parts.

Object Thrower: It’s easy to aim on your target and throw something to it. Object thrower is a fun way to enjoy with your robot. It has pan and tilt servos and two throwers.

Security Camera: This module captures the moments and saves or streams the recordings to the internet. The camera has pan and tilt servos, and waterproof design.

These are the some possibilities, when we combine base and mission modules. Except for the some limitations, each mission module will be compatible with each base module.

Surround Modules

To make your device an autonomous robot, we need some sensors. Surround modules are interchangeable and plug and play parts that make your robot detect its surroundings. We're currently working on disrance, light and compass sensors.

Combining everything together, we have a modular robotics system.

Controller Module

As we're supporting open-source, we're also happy to say that you are free to choose your embedded platform. Roboting® is Arduino® compatible, therefore you may use your favorite Arduino board. We also support Netduino® and STM32 boards. The details will be announced soon.

S for Software

A great hardware complements with a great software. We're excelling Roboting's software for both hobbyists and programmers.

Control Panel

An easy to use user experience is waiting for hobbyists.

Our control panel, called Roboting Maestro, connects with your robot over the Bluetooth, WiFi or Internet. It detects all the modules and sensors on your robot, and then shows their respective controls.

It is possible to use a gamepad, Kinect®, or Leap Motion® sensor to control the robot. Everything is engineering so perfectly for the hobbyists to use the functions without any programming experience.

More details and best practices are coming soon.

API

Roboting is more than a remote controlled device. With our open sourced API's, its easy to communicate with each module. Currently we're working on Arduino, .NET Micro Framework and STM32 firmwares and C# API. We'll add other platforms soon.

C for Cloud

Soon, we're going to start adding cloud functionalities, such as;

Controlling your robot over the internet,
Remote data logging, and
Video transport.

Project Diary

On March 2014, we moved to San Francisto to make up the Roboting. We attended as many meetups as we can to get people's opinions. In the meantime, we developed Roboting's first concept prototype, which is being controlled by a gamepad over the Bluetooth.

Then, we optimized the firmware and API's to make a robust infrastructure. Everything is made modular, to accept any future models easily. By the time, we decided which base and mission modules to add into our inventory.

On June, we started to build SolidWorks® drawings of the models.

On July, it was the time of a new beginning! We 3D printed Roboting's first parts. Then, we optimized them for the right size and 3D printable structure. We hired a workspace on TechShop San Francisco to access tools and space we needed. Here are the first 3D prints:

7/11/2014: Side parts of car base, sensor and motor modules, controller box slot.

7/16/2014: Top and bottom parts of car body.

7/18/2014: Robotic arm grabber module parts.

7/18/2014: Building the grabber.