TurtleBot3
- Software
- Navigation and mapping
- Framework
A ROS-based collection of packages and documentation for the TurtleBot3 small mobile robot platform, including its related drivers, simulations and applications.
Made by ROBOTIS, South Korea (checked on github.com/ROBOTIS-GIT (opens in a new tab)).
Source on GitHub: github.com/ROBOTIS-GIT/turtlebot3 (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit fc817ce (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- Apache-2.0 (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (Apache-2.0) at commit fc817ce (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Serves as the main repository for the TurtleBot3 robot platform, with active branches for humble, jazzy and rolling.
- Links to related projects covering messages, simulations, manipulation, machine learning and autorace challenges.
- Includes drivers for lidar sensors and links to the Dynamixel SDK and OpenCR controller hardware projects.
- Points to official e-Manual documentation, tutorial videos and community forums for support.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit fc817ce.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- How to start
- The project's README (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Maintained: a commit in the last 12 months
- Newest commit
- 15 Jun 2026 on main
- Latest release
- 2.3.7 (15 Jun 2026)
Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.
Links
Robots on Robotheca that use it
No robot on Robotheca is linked to it yet. Links come from a robot's robot.yaml, from its dependency files read as text, or from Robotheca's editors.
Robotheca lists software as a reference: nothing is hosted or run here, and every fact links to where it was read.