1. Project Overview

Robo.Op is an open hardware / open software platform for hacking industrial robots. This project integrates open-source toolkits, such as Processing and Arduino, into existing industrial robotic workflows.

The goal of Robo.Op 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

The following is an ever-growing list of projects that incorporate industrial robots in untraditional ways.
Drawing

[Long Distance Art](http://www.creativeapplications.net/vvvv/long-distance-art-one-artist-two-robots-and-three-paintings-in-vienna-berlin-and-london/) by [STRUKT](http://strukt.com/2013/long-distance-art/) (2013)

**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) by Ken Goldberg and Joseph Santarromana

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

**Fabrication**

[Mataerial](http://www.creativeapplications.net/objects/mataerial-new-method-of-additive-3d-manufacturing/) by [Petr Novikov, Saša Jokić,and Joris Laarman Studio](http://www.mataerial.com/#about-us) (2013)

[Suspended Despositions](http://nstrmnt.com/#/suspended-depositions/) by Brian Harms (2013)

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Acknowledgments

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