Urbi on Robotics

Another innovation we saw during the Traveling Geeks tour to Paris was Urbi, robotics software platform and operating system from Gostai, that
makes all robots compatible.

Urbi is already compatible with
numerous robots on the market, including Nao, Aibo, Spykee or Bioloid, and
advanced consumer applications based on Urbi have been demonstrated on the
Spykee robot in partnership with mobile phone operators: home surveillance,
entertainment for kids, or remote presence.

Gostai’s project is to provide a
standard environment for robotic applications development and to contribute to
the growth of a new industry: service and consumer robotics.

Urbi plans to go open source in May 2010 because there is a clear need and strong trends
that calls for an open source OS for robots today.