The first app-enabled spider

Maarten Ectors

on 5 August 2015

Tags: erle robotics , erle-spider , ROS , Ubuntu Core

This article was last updated 6 years ago.

If you are into robot spiders then the erle-spider is something to look forward to. It will be the first app-enabled Snappy Ubuntu Core and ROS powered robot spider. Curious to see what people will do with it…

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