Lynxmotion is a robot

Robot

A robot is a mechanical or virtual intelligent agent that can perform tasks automatically or with guidance, typically by remote control. In practice a robot is usually an electro-mechanical machine that is guided by computer and electronic programming. Robots can be autonomous, semi-autonomous or...

 parts and kits

Robot kit

A robot kit is a special construction kit for building robots, especially autonomous mobile robots.Toy robot kits are also supplied by several companies...

 manufacturing company based in Pekin, Illinois

Pekin, Illinois

Pekin is a the county seat of Tazewell County in the U.S. state of Illinois. Located on the Illinois River, Pekin is also the largest city of Tazewell County, and a key part of the Peoria metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census, its population is 34,094. A small portion of the city limits extends...

. They design and manufacture a variety of hobby and research level robot kits and parts, and specialize in a modular robotics building system known as the Servo Erector Set.

Lynxmotion also hosts an active online community forum of hobby roboticist

Roboticist

A roboticist designs, builds, programs, and experiments with robots. Since robotics is a highly interdisciplinary field, roboticists often have backgrounds in a number of disciplines including computer science, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and computer engineering...

s at Lynxmotion.net where projects, code, and technology is shared and support is provided for products.

See also

• Future of robotics
  Future of robotics
  This article is about the future of robotics for civil use.- Types of robots :Humanoid robots:*Lara is the first female humanoid robot with artificial muscles instead of electric motors .*Asimo is one of the most advanced projects as of 2009.Modular robots: can be built from standard building...
  
  
• Human virtualization
• Industrial robot
  Industrial robot
  An industrial robot is defined by ISO as an automatically controlled, reprogrammable, multipurpose manipulator programmable in three or more axes...
  
  
• List of emerging robotic technologies
• Open source hardware
  Open source hardware
  Open source hardware consists of physical artifacts of technology designed and offered in the same manner as free and open source software . Open source hardware is part of the open source culture movement and applies a like concept to a variety of components. The term usually means that...
  
  
• Robotics suite
  Robotics suite
  A robotics suite is a visual environment for robot control and simulation. They are typically an end-to-end platform for robotics development and include tools for visual programming and creating and debugging robot applications...
  
  
• Whegs
  Whegs
  Whegs are a series of robots developed at the Biologically Inspired Robotics Laboratory at Case Western Reserve University. Whegs use a strategy of locomotion that combines the simplicity of the wheel with the obstacle-clearing advantages of the foot....
  
  

External links

• Robot Kit Controllers For Lynxmotion - On The Fly Inverse Kinematics - See A-POD