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</style><table class="infobox vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary">(Pyro) - Python Robotics</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Initial release</th><td class="infobox-data">March 10, 2003<span style="display: none;"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">2003-03-10</span>)</span></td></tr><tr style="display: none;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="Software_release_life_cycle" title="Software release life cycle">Stable release</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="margin:0px;">5.0
/ August 15, 2007<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2007-08-15</span>)</span></div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2">
</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Available in</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Python_(programming_language)" title="Python (programming language)">Python</a>, C++</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://pyrorobotics.com/">pyrorobotics<wbr>.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p><b>Python Robotics</b> (<b>Pyro</b>) is a project designed to create an easy-to-use interface for accessing and controlling a wide variety of real and simulated robots.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div>
<p>Pyrobot was funded from 2003 to 2005 by the <a href="National_Science_Foundation" title="National Science Foundation">National Science Foundation</a> as NSF DUE CCLI-EMD Award number 0231363, "Beyond LEGOs: Hardware, Software, and Curriculum for the Next Generation Robot Laboratory". The principal investigators on the NSF grant were Douglas Blank of <a href="Bryn_Mawr_College" title="Bryn Mawr College">Bryn Mawr College</a>, Kurt Konolige of <a href="SRI_International" title="SRI International">SRI International</a>, Deepak Kumar (computer scientist) of <a href="Bryn_Mawr_College" title="Bryn Mawr College">Bryn Mawr College</a>, Lisa Meeden of <a href="Swarthmore_College" title="Swarthmore College">Swarthmore College</a>, and <a href="Holly_Yanco" title="Holly Yanco">Holly Yanco</a> of <a href="University_of_Massachusetts_Lowell" title="University of Massachusetts Lowell">University of Massachusetts Lowell</a>.
</p><p>PyroBot is a <a href="Python_(programming_language)" title="Python (programming language)">Python</a> library with some C++ code for processing camera images. It has connections to <a href="Player_Project" title="Player Project">Player</a>, <a href="Player_Project#Stage" title="Player Project">Stage</a>, and Gazebo. It also contains its own simulator written completely in Python. It can directly control a variety of real robots, including the Pioneer, <a href="Khepera_mobile_robot" title="Khepera mobile robot">Khepera</a>, <a href="AIBO" title="AIBO">AIBO</a>, and Hemisson.
</p><p>The ideas from PyroBot continue to evolve as Myro, short for My Robot, in the <a href="Institute_for_Personal_Robots_in_Education" title="Institute for Personal Robots in Education">Institute for Personal Robots in Education</a> software, although it is no longer for Python only. Myro can be used by many other computer languages as well.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Robotics" title="Robotics">Robotics</a></li>
<li><a href="Open-source_robotics" title="Open-source robotics">Open-source robotics</a></li></ul>
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</style><cite id="CITEREFBlankKumarMeedenYanco2006" class="citation journal cs1">Blank, D. S.; Kumar, D.; Meeden, L.; <a href="Holly_Yanco" title="Holly Yanco">Yanco, H.</a> (Spring 2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dangermouse.brynmawr.edu/~dblank/papers/aimag05.pdf">"The Pyro Toolkit for AI and Robotics"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i><a href="AI_Magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="AI Magazine">AI Magazine</a></i>. <b>27</b> (1): <span class="nowrap">39–</span>50. <a href="Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1609%2Faimag.v27i1.1862">10.1609/aimag.v27i1.1862</a>. <a href="S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:7858018">7858018</a>.</cite></li>
<li><cite id="CITEREFBlankKumarMeedenYanco2004" class="citation journal cs1">Blank, D. S.; Kumar, D.; Meeden, L.; Yanco, H. (September 2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dangermouse.brynmawr.edu/~dblank/papers/jeric-04.pdf">"Pyro: A Python-based Versatile Programming Environment for Teaching Robotics"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>Journal on Educational Resources in Computing</i>. <b>4</b> (3): 1. <a href="Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1145%2F1083310.1047569">10.1145/1083310.1047569</a>.</cite></li>
<li><cite id="CITEREFBlankMeedenKumar2003" class="citation conference cs1">Blank, D.; Meeden, L.; Kumar, D. (2003). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dangermouse.brynmawr.edu/~dblank/papers/sigcse-03.pdf"><i>Python robotics: An Environment for Exploring Robotics Beyond LEGOs</i></a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <a href="SIGCSE_Technical_Symposium_on_Computer_Science_Education" title="SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education">SIGCSE</a> '03. <i>Proceedings of the 34th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education</i>. pp. <span class="nowrap">317–</span>321. <a href="Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1145%2F611892.611996">10.1145/611892.611996</a>. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>1-58113-648-X</bdi>.</cite></li>
<li><cite id="CITEREFBlankYancoKumarMeeden2004" class="citation conference cs1">Blank, D. S.; Yanco, H.; Kumar, D.; Meeden, L. (Spring 2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dangermouse.brynmawr.edu/~dblank/papers/aaaiss04-pyro.pdf"><i>Avoiding the Karel-the-Robot Paradox: A Framework for Making Sophisticated Robotics Accessible</i></a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <a href="Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Artificial_Intelligence" title="Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence">AAAI</a> Spring Symposium. <i>Accessible Hands-on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Education</i>. pp. <span class="nowrap">48–</span>51. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>1-57735-193-2</bdi>. SS-04-01.</cite></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cs.brynmawr.edu/BeyondLegos/">Beyond LEGOs</a> - NSF funding page for Pyrobot</li></ul></div><!--htdig_noindex--><div><div class="zim-footer">
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