Baxter Research Software Developers Kit (SDK) - RethinkRobotics/sdk-docs GitHub Wiki
The Research SDK provides a software interface allowing researchers of all disciplines to develop custom applications to run on the Baxter hardware platform.
The Research SDK interfaces with the Baxter Research Robot via ROS (Robot Operating System). Baxter provides a stand-alone ROS Master to which any development workstation can connect and control Baxter via the various ROS APIs.
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Getting Started - Installation and setup of Baxter Hardware and Development Workstations