SCUTTLE™ is a ROS Ready robotics platform originating from a critical need at Texas A&M for a flexible, extensible, durable, and affordable robot to support the university’s Mobile Robotics Undergraduate Engineering course.

Through the development of the course the Texas A&M team found no affordable solutions on the market which could meet the learning objectives which were grounded in creating and teaching practical use cases for robotics.  In order to meet the goal of the course to better bridge the gap between the theoretical and practical worlds we kicked off the development of the SCUTTLE platform! Early on we determined that the specifications and design would be shared publicly to lower the barriers of entry to robotics with a practical platform that could be effectively used for prototyping amongst hobbyists, companies, and academic institutions world-wide.  The result of that effort is a robot with strong autonomous capability, IoT connectivity, and payload performance; backed by a supportive Open-Source Community and easily available design documentation.

The original SCUTTLE design was iterated upon to require ZERO fabrication and to be sourced from parts available world-wide at low cost.  All of the documentation to build your own Scuttle can be found through links right here.