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Python Robotics (pyrobot 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.

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 principle 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, 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, Aibo, and Hemisson.

'''External Links'''

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

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