Can someone recommend a physical robotic manipulator for educational purposes?

I wonder if anyone can recommend a reasonable hardware option to test the code below: https://nl.mathworks.com/help/robotics/ug/control-pr2-arm-movements-using-actions-and-ik.html ?

Answer 1

[Remo Pillat]

Hi Anton,

You can probably adjust to example to any robot arm that has a ROS interface. The ROS actions in the example (e.g. for specifying the joint trajectory) are specific to PR2, but there should be equivalent interfaces for most other robot arms. A good place to start is to check out all supported robots (and arms) on the main ROS website: https://robots.ros.org/

[Anton Treialt]

Thank you. Do you have any personal favourites for the budget of less than 1K?

[Remo Pillat]

We previously used the TurtleBot arm: https://github.com/turtlebot/turtlebot_arm, but you should decide based on your own requirements, e.g. payload, workspace, interface, etc.