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'''Python Robotics''' ('''Pyro for short''') is a project designed to create an easy-to-use interface for accessing and controlling a wide variety of real and simulated robots.

==History==

[[Image:ActivMedia Pioneer 3-AT robot.jpg|thumb|The Pioneer robot is one of many which [[PyroBot]] can simulate.]]

Pyrobot was funded from [[2003]] to [[2005]] by the [[National Science Foundation]] as NSF DUE CCLI-EMD Award number 0231363, "Beyond LEGOs: Hardware, Software, and Curriculum for the Next Generation Robot Laboratory". The principal investigators on the NSF grant were [[Douglas Blank]] of [[Bryn Mawr College]], [[Kurt Konolige]] of [[SRI International]], [[Deepak Kumar (computer scientist)]] of [[Bryn Mawr College]], [[Lisa Meeden]] of [[Swarthmore College]], and [[Holly Yanco]] of [[University of Massachusetts Lowell]].

PyroBot is a [[Python (programming language)|Python]] library with some C++ code for processing camera images. It has connections to [[Player Project|Player]], [[Player Project#Stage|Stage]], and Gazebo. It also contains its own simulator written completely in Python. It can directly control a variety of real robots, including the Pioneer, [[Khepera mobile robot|Khepera]], Aibo[[AIBO]], and Hemisson.

The ideas from PyroBot continue to evolve as Myro, short for My Robot, in the [[Institute for Personal Robots in Education]] software, although it is no longer for Python only. Myro can be used by many other computer languages as well.

==See also==

* [[Robotics]]

* [[Open-source robotics]]

==References==

* {{Cite journal | doi = 10.1609/aimag.v27i1.1862| title = The Pyro Toolkit for AI and Robotics| journal = [[AI Magazine]]| volume = 27| issue = 1| date = Spring 2006| pages = 39–50| last1 = Blank | first1 = D. S.| last2 = Kumar | first2 = D.| last3 = Meeden | first3 = L.| last4 = Yanco | first4 = H.| s2cid = 7858018|author4-link=Holly Yanco| url = http://dangermouse.brynmawr.edu/~dblank/papers/aimag05.pdf}}

* {{Cite journal | doi = 10.1145/1083310.1047569| title = Pyro: A Python-based Versatile Programming Environment for Teaching Robotics| journal = Journal on Educational Resources in Computing| volume = 4| issue = 3| pages = 1| date = September 2004| last1 = Blank | first1 = D. S.| last2 = Kumar | first2 = D.| last3 = Meeden | first3 = L.| last4 = Yanco | first4 = H.| url = http://dangermouse.brynmawr.edu/~dblank/papers/jeric-04.pdf}}

* {{Cite conference | doi = 10.1145/611892.611996| title = Python robotics: An Environment for Exploring Robotics Beyond LEGOs| work = Proceedings of the 34th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education| conference = [[SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education|SIGCSE]] '03| pages = 317–321| year = 2003| last1 = Blank | first1 = D. | last2 = Meeden | first2 = L. | last3 = Kumar | first3 = D. | isbn = 1-58113-648-X| url = http://dangermouse.brynmawr.edu/~dblank/papers/sigcse-03.pdf}}

* {{cite conference |last1=Blank |first1=D. S. |last2=Yanco |first2=H. |last3=Kumar |first3=D. |last4=Meeden |first4=L. |date=Spring 2004 |title=Avoiding the Karel-the-Robot Paradox: A Framework for Making Sophisticated Robotics Accessible |work=Accessible Hands-on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Education |conference=[[Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence|AAAI]] Spring Symposium |pages=48–51 |id=SS-04-01 |isbn=1-57735-193-2 |url=http://dangermouse.brynmawr.edu/~dblank/papers/aaaiss04-pyro.pdf}}

==External links==

* [http://pyrorobotics.org/ Python Robotics] - project home page

* [http://www.cs.brynmawr.edu/BeyondLegos/ Beyond LEGOs] - NSF funding page for Pyrobot

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