“Continuity from education to industry is a problem for robotics across the board. We need industrial players to trust that students are learning something valuable and workable in the industry.”
The world of mobile robotics is evolving at an unprecedented rate, causing an influx of hardware and software tools for building novel mobile robots. However, these vast resources also present a challenge: the absence of continuity and modularity in integrating these tools, which in turn hinders pathways to desired robotics outcomes.
Students in educational settings who dive deep into these tools and methods often find that what they've learned isn't directly applicable in the professional realm. This mismatch creates barriers to entry for budding robotics engineers. SCUTTLE emerged as a solution to this challenge, offering an affordable, versatile, and open-source mobile robotics hardware platform that flexibly supports both research and commercial applications.
As the SCUTTLE ecosystem evolved, the same challenges emerged for the community on the software side, bringing the SCUTTLE Robotics team to look for a complementary and modular software framework.
“Viam enables continuity for robotics software. And that allows the students and professionals to say, I can trust that this ecosystem will connect me to all the key tools to do any robotics outcome.”
Enter Viam, a champion of the open-source ecosystem for robotics software, mirroring SCUTTLE's philosophy for hardware. While SCUTTLE enables modularity for mobile robotics, Viam works in tandem to streamline robotics software.
Students and engineers alike can now trust this combined ecosystem to provide all the essential tools needed to achieve any robotics goal in an extensible and flexible manner. With Viam's integration on a SCUTTLE robot, hardware configuration and control software become accessible and straightforward processes.
“On the business side, engineers and developers need the freedom to develop independently and create what they have in mind without constant check-ins with other teams. And that’s really important for businesses to scale.”
The collaboration between SCUTTLE and Viam is more than just a partnership; it's the union of two visions that aim to redefine freedom in robotics. This freedom allows students, robotics engineers, and other specialists to work independently and make changes with the assurance that they will seamlessly integrate into the larger system.
It's a transformative approach that fosters rapid development and innovation in both research and industry settings.
Learn more about the SCUTTLE mobile platform website and check out our tutorial for quickly configuring a SCUTTLE robot.
Have a question for our team? Reach out to us using the form below.
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“Continuity from education to industry is a problem for robotics across the board. We need industrial players to trust that students are learning something valuable and workable in the industry.”
The world of mobile robotics is evolving at an unprecedented rate, causing an influx of hardware and software tools for building novel mobile robots. However, these vast resources also present a challenge: the absence of continuity and modularity in integrating these tools, which in turn hinders pathways to desired robotics outcomes.
Students in educational settings who dive deep into these tools and methods often find that what they've learned isn't directly applicable in the professional realm. This mismatch creates barriers to entry for budding robotics engineers. SCUTTLE emerged as a solution to this challenge, offering an affordable, versatile, and open-source mobile robotics hardware platform that flexibly supports both research and commercial applications.
As the SCUTTLE ecosystem evolved, the same challenges emerged for the community on the software side, bringing the SCUTTLE Robotics team to look for a complementary and modular software framework.
“Viam enables continuity for robotics software. And that allows the students and professionals to say, I can trust that this ecosystem will connect me to all the key tools to do any robotics outcome.”
Enter Viam, a champion of the open-source ecosystem for robotics software, mirroring SCUTTLE's philosophy for hardware. While SCUTTLE enables modularity for mobile robotics, Viam works in tandem to streamline robotics software.
Students and engineers alike can now trust this combined ecosystem to provide all the essential tools needed to achieve any robotics goal in an extensible and flexible manner. With Viam's integration on a SCUTTLE robot, hardware configuration and control software become accessible and straightforward processes.
“On the business side, engineers and developers need the freedom to develop independently and create what they have in mind without constant check-ins with other teams. And that’s really important for businesses to scale.”
The collaboration between SCUTTLE and Viam is more than just a partnership; it's the union of two visions that aim to redefine freedom in robotics. This freedom allows students, robotics engineers, and other specialists to work independently and make changes with the assurance that they will seamlessly integrate into the larger system.
It's a transformative approach that fosters rapid development and innovation in both research and industry settings.
Learn more about the SCUTTLE mobile platform website and check out our tutorial for quickly configuring a SCUTTLE robot.
Have a question for our team? Reach out to us using the form below.
The rich text element allows you to create and format headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, images, and video all in one place instead of having to add and format them individually. Just double-click and easily create content.
A rich text element can be used with static or dynamic content. For static content, just drop it into any page and begin editing. For dynamic content, add a rich text field to any collection and then connect a rich text element to that field in the settings panel. Voila!
"Headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, figures, images, and figure captions can all be styled after a class is added to the rich text element using the "When inside of" nested selector system."
