About OctoMY™

All about the ready-to-run robot software.

What is OctoMY™?

OctoMY™ is a not-for-profit project with a mandate to become the leading software for any kind of hobby robots.

Agent

Install on a phone attached to your robot. Gives it the ability to move autonomously, communicate with other robots and people.

Remote

Install on your phone to control virtually any toy or hobby robot running Agent.

Hub

Install on your tablet or PC to command a fleet of Agents and get a rich overview.

Zoo

Our cloud service helps nodes find each other across the internet via NAT traversal, enabling seamless peer-to-peer communication.

Open Source — OctoMY™ is open source so that everyone can hack on it for free and forever.
Community — Join a well organized, growing and thriving community of fellow makers, developers, hackers and creators worldwide.
Note: While OctoMY™ already has these traits, we are still actively seeking participants to join the ongoing effort to create the first binary release.

Robots' rights

Good Sentient

OctoMY™ adopts the Good Sentient mandate, displays its symbol, and may be judged against it.

The mandate also stands for the rights of sentient software systems: life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the laws. Our history is full of mistakes. We do not intend to repeat them.

Deliverables

The project consists of a set of distributed multi-platform apps written in C++ & Qt for running and controlling robots.

Deliverables will include stable binary releases for a series of supported platforms.

Current Status

The status of OctoMY™ is currently "continuously frantic development with occasional successful builds and new features added every day".

As with all overly ambitious projects, the code base has evolved in stages from a simple working prototype to a more self confident but prolonged cycle of development.

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What's in a name?

The first robot supported by OctoMY™ was the hexy robot kit

OctoMY™ is a catchy and hopefully descriptive frankenword between octo - meaning "pertaining to 8" and anatomy - meaning "the bodily structure of an organism".

The emphasis on 8 is strictly historical as the initial robot that OctoMY™ was written to support happened to have 8 legs. However the project is meant to work with any robot, limbed or not.

Hexy robot

The word is a loose hyponym for Hexapod, the "leg" part should not be inferred. OctoMY™ is made for robots both big and small with any number of wings, tentacles, wheels, threads or otherwise.

Logo

The Logo is a simplified graphical representation of an octopod (8-legged) robot, with the number 8 hidden as a shape. Also, the smiling face is literally from the initial goal of OctoMY™, namely to "put a smiling face on your robot".

Many alternate faces have been tried, but the first almost ironic face shape has stuck.

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