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Robotic arm runs Linux (LinuxDevices)

LinuxDevices covers the Katana Robotic Arm. "Zurich, Switzerland-based Neuronics has released an open-source embedded Linux version of its "Katana" robot." The Katana Robotic Arm runs Linux with Xenomai hard real time extensions on a Freescale MPC5200-based control board, and is aimed at industry, production, and research applications, says the company."
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Robotic arm runs Linux (LinuxDevices)

Posted Nov 26, 2008 21:43 UTC (Wed) by Requiem (guest, #51519) [Link]

Does the device use an ARM processor?

Robotic arm runs Linux (LinuxDevices)

Posted Nov 26, 2008 23:40 UTC (Wed) by xorbe (subscriber, #3165) [Link]

I, for one, welcome our new Linux robotic arm overlords...

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