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Developing reusable robotic software is particularly difficult because there is no universally agreed upon definition of what a robot is. Over the past half-century, robots took many forms. Some were inspired by their biological counterparts such as humanoids, dogs, snakes, and spiders. Others were designed for particular domains such as manufacturing, medical, service, military, or space applications. They took the form of arms, wheeled robots, legged robots, hoppers, blimps, underwater vehicles, sub-surface diggers, and even reconfigurable robots.
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Nesnas, I.A.D. (2007). The CLARAty Project: Coping with Hardware and Software Heterogeneity. In: Brugali, D. (eds) Software Engineering for Experimental Robotics. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 30. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68951-5_3
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