Robotic Nation Evidence

The Open Robotics Peripheral Platform is an effort to standardize robotics platforms and help people to share their innovations in an open way. According to the site, ORPP provides "a versatile platform for many different robotic applications. Until now the basic platforms for robots have been either toys with little practical application or expensive, overly customized components. The goal of this project is to provide modular components that are easily outfitted with various hardware and software features in the same manner as the modern-day personal computer. Any novice computer technician could control, outfit, and maintain a O.R.P.P."