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What do you think about adding sections on categories for Humanoids? Manipulator? Legged robot? #134

Closed robotpilot closed 4 years ago

robotpilot commented 6 years ago

Now, this site for ROS-enabled robots (http://robots.ros.org/) is divided into Aerial, Component, Ground, Marine, and Sensor.

I counted about 120 robots in total. But most of them are on the ground. Maybe this seems to be the obvious reason. However, it is increasingly difficult for our community to find more and more robots, especially ground type robots. So I think we need to further subdivide the robots that belong to Ground.

What do you think about adding sections on categories for Humanoids? Manipulator? Legged robot?

tfoote commented 6 years ago

In general we'd like to avoid generating a full taxonomy, but if there are strong categories adding them would be reasonable. However tags are a little bit more expressive. As something might be "humanoid" and "legged" It can be tagged with both, but would not be able to be in the same category.

For better visibility, it might make sense to consider some landing pages for tags to show all robots of a specific tag, instead of the simple text list currently: http://robots.ros.org/tags/#humanoid

Then you could pick any tag to browse or link to. And we could consider highlighting one or more of the tags on the homepage.

There's also helpful things that could be added to the tag field such as displaying counts, and allowing sorting by the count possibly.

robotpilot commented 6 years ago

I agree with you that it is difficult to classify all robots and I think tagging is a good idea. However, I feel that there are too many robots belonging to the Ground category. This means that it is difficult for users to find robots in that category. I think it is acceptable level now, but if it increases to 200 .. 300, I think it is necessary to classify separately. :)

IanTheEngineer commented 6 years ago

I'd like to +1 the idea for having a robot arm category. I don't think having a section for arms or manipulators is going down the rabbit hole of "full taxonomy". There are many industrial robot arms in the world, provided by a plethora of manufacturers, but very few robot legs for instance. @tfoote & @robotpilot I'd like to propose collapsing the "sensor" and "component" categories into one, and shift the robot arms under their own category. The sensor category still has 0 entries at this moment in time: https://robots.ros.org/category/sensor/

I had a bit of free time this evening and doodled out an icon that I'd be happy to contribute to the new category. If this is acceptable to the maintainers and community, I'll submit a PR to add it.

arm

tfoote commented 6 years ago

Yeah, we do have a bunch of robot arms. That probably makes sense to add the Arm cagetory @IanTheEngineer

I guess the sensors are "components" there's a lot of them listed here: http://wiki.ros.org/Sensors I guess a tag for each class of sensor would work pretty well too.

robotpilot commented 4 years ago

It is too old, so close it.