1. Project Overview

Project ROBOTO is an open hardware / open software platform for hacking industrial robots. This project integrates Processing and Arduino toolkits into existing industrial robotic workflows.

The goal of Project ROBOTO is to enable designers to:

• quickly integrate their own custom tools for creative robotics
• share knowledge across design and engineering disciplines
• bypass the expensive proprietary software and hardware currently offered by robotics companies

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Related Works

List of awesome projects in creative robotics ... include what tech they integrate
Drawing

Light Writing

[OUTRACE](http://www.outrace.org/) by [Kram/Weissahaar](http://www.kramweisshaar.com/projects/outrace) (2010)

[Robotic Mimicry](http://sy-lab.net/1511556/Robotic-Mimicry) by [Shawn Simms](http://sy-lab.net) & [Karl Willis](http://www.karlddwillis.com/) (2011)

**Projection Mapping**

[Box](https://vimeo.com/75260457) by [Bot-N-Dolly](http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-03-20/bot-and-dolly-and-the-rise-of-creative-robots) (2013)

**Interaction**

[The Telegarden](http://goldberg.berkeley.edu/garden/Ars/) (1995-2004)

[Double-Taker (Snout)](http://www.flong.com/projects/snout/) by [Golan Levin](http://www.flong.com/) (2008)

**Fabrication**

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Acknowledgments

This project was initialized by Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Machine Virtuosity group.
Code for Project ROBOTO was adapted from Open ABB Driver.
Contributors: Zack Jacobson-Weaver & Madeline Gannon, with Mauricio Contreras