Robotics Field Guide

Contact

How to reach the editor of the Robotics Field Guide, what to include in your message, and what to expect in reply.

Contact is by email, to editor@roboticsfieldguide.com. There is no contact form. A person reads every message.

What to include

For a correction, send:

  • the address of the page,
  • what is wrong, quoting the sentence, number or code line,
  • what is right, if you know it, with a link to where it can be checked: a datasheet, official documentation, a paper or a standard.

For code that does not run, also send the error message, your operating system, and the library versions or the ROS 2 distribution you used.

For a robot you would like added to the robot database, send:

  • the robot’s name and maker, and a link to the maker’s product page or datasheet,
  • its type (arm, cobot, mobile robot, quadruped, humanoid, drone),
  • degrees of freedom, payload, reach and mass, if the maker publishes them,
  • whether a ROS 2 driver exists, and who maintains it.

We list robots that are on sale or available to researchers, with figures from the maker’s own documentation. We do not list robots in exchange for payment.

For an event, send its name, organiser, dates, location, cost and the official link.

For anything else, such as a topic you would like covered or a link that has moved, a short plain email is fine.

What to expect

Corrections go through the process on the corrections page, and we reply when a report is resolved. Other messages are answered as time allows. Every message is read, even when we cannot reply to all of them.

We cannot debug your robot, review your thesis or recommend hardware for a specific product by email. If the site does not answer a question you think it should, tell us, because that is a page we should probably write.

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