This open and enabling platform delivers significant price / performance advantages to robotics education and research programs.

Academia and R&D

Now you can use the same platform for introductory robotics courses right through to advanced robotics research. The PC-BOT open architecture provides a common baseline for review and comparison, code-sharing and enables international peer groups to use a common lexicon. Development in either Windows or Linux is equally possible. The PC-BOT can make significant contributions to research through applied autonomy and collaboration as well as research into human-robot interaction.

  Examples of PC-BOT in academia and R&D
  University of Waterloo (Canada) - Multi-Robot Motion Planning
  Application note (PDF)   |   Link to their website
  Missouri State University (U.S.) - Missouri Innovation Academy
  Link to their brochure

Educators and Students

With tight budgets, an educator will immediately appreciate the 914's relatively low price and high reliability. Instead of buying a single expensive platform you can now purchase several robots per class resulting in less time-sharing. The PC-BOT is also an ideal baseline platform for a new category of robot competitions.

  Examples of PC-BOT in educators and students
  BOCES Career Tech Center in Ellicottville (U.S.)
  - Robot is learning aid for Computer Systems students
  Application note (PDF)   |   Link to their website
  The Secondary Robotics Initiative (U.S.) - Artbots
  Application note (PDF)   |   Link to their website

Robotics Enthusiasts and PC Modders

It is now easier than ever to build exciting new robots leveraging the well known and documented "white box" architecture. Thousands of inexpensive, off-the-shelf parts can be integrated using industry standard interfaces (USB, Serial, Firewire) and modular, readily accessible 5 ¼" bays.

By adding mobility to the PC, the 914 opens a whole new world of possibilities to a global community of robotics and PC enthusiasts.

Brochure: Open Architecture Robotics