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Erle Robotics has launched a six-legged Erle-Spider robot on Indiegogo, with an Erle-Brain 2 controller that runs Ubuntu Snappy and ROS on a Raspberry Pi 2. Spain’s Erle Robotics was the first company to create an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) using the Linux version of 3DR’s typically Arduino-based APM (ArduPilot Mega) drone autopilot platform. The company started with the Erle-Copter Ubuntu Edition quadrotor, and then shipped its almost identical Ubuntu Snappy based Erle-Copter Ubuntu Core Special Edition. Now, Erle Robotics has gone to Indiegogo to launch a six-legged “Erle-Spider” robot that similarly runs on Snappy Ubuntu Core and the Robot Operating System (ROS) open source robotics platform.

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