Adept MobileRobots is the manufacturer of Pioneer, Seekur, Seekur Jr., PeopleBot, PatrolBot, PowerBot and AmigoBot mobile robots. It was formerly known as ActivMedia Robotics and MobileRobots Inc. These robots all use the same p2os-compatible Pioneer protocol.

There are two different methods for using ROS with these robots. The ROSARIA package uses the ARIA library from MobileRobots to communicate with any MobileRobots robot and robot-specific integrated devices (e.g. sonar, bumpers). See ROSARIA/Tutorials/How to use ROSARIA] for a step by step tutorial.

Alternatively, use p2os to communicate directly with the robot using the Pioneer protocol. See Getting Started with p2os for a tutorial.

ROS nodes may run on the robots onboard computer or computers as well as any offboard computers (via wifi). If a robot does not have an (internal) onboard computer, then a wireless serial interface can be used, or a laptop can be mounted on the robot.

Manuals, support and technical knowlege base is available at http://robots.mobilerobots.com.

The company home page is http://www.mobilerobots.com

It is also possible to use Adept industrial arms in ROS. This was developed as part of the ROS industrial effort, see http://www.ros.org/wiki/swri-ros-pkg.