| OUR VISION |

Our vision lies within the “Robotics 4 All" concept. We argue that robotic software development can be fast and easy, provided the suitable tools exist and our research efforts are oriented towards creating the appropriate software, supporting the rapid-prototyping concept in the robotics field. We have developed the R4A middleware framework that supports the creation of robot-agnostic applications, that could potentially be downloaded as-is to heterogeneous robots and executed automatically. We fully support the utilization of the ROS ecosystem for having access to low-level robotic  algorithms, as well as treating robots as “things", providing application-level access to the IoT world. We promote the cloud robotics concept, by creating cloud-based web-services that are ready-to-be-used by any robotic application.  Our ultimate vision: A web-based workbench, for anyone to graphically create robotic software and interconnect it with existent robotic modules,  services or other devices.