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==Community==

The first signs of the increasing popularity of building and sharing robot designs were found with the [[DIYmaker]] community. What began with small competitions for remote operated vehicles (e.g. [[Robot combat]]), soon developed to the building of [[autonomous telepresence]] robots such as [[Sparky (robot)|Sparky]] and then true robots (being able to take decisions themselves) as the Open Automaton Project. Several commercial companies now also produce kits for making simple robots.

The community has adopted [[open source hardware]] licenses, certifications, and peer-reviewed publications, which check that source has been made correctly and permanently available under community definitions, and which validate that this has been done. These processes have become critically important due to many historical projects claiming to be open source but them reverting on the promise due to commercialisation or other pressures.