A Blender 3D Survival Guide - A Beginners Haven

Blender, an open source 3D Graphics and Animation software is an excellent resource. But, a beginner soon gets into a web while learning the essentials. Paolo Ciccone provides a series of tutorials, which he calls a survival guide. True, it would surely help a beginner to survive the initial onslaught of learning the new software called Blender.

You'll find them at "The Blender 3D Survival Guide"

Are you a beginner? Blender tutorial for Robotics

Blender is a very comprehensive tool which is easy and fast for modeling. You can now use blender for robotic simulations. Are you new to blender or robotic simulations? There is a five part tutorial, which helps you to begin your journey in robotic simulations using Blender.

Part 1 - Introduction and Modelling

Part 2 - Parenting and Rigging

Part 3 - Interfacing with the Game Engine

Part 4 - Programming in the Game Engine

Part 5 - Game Engine and The Kinect

Looking for Robot Simulation Software?

      Open source - a nice word to hear, for the less privileged (may be that's about a few years back). LAAS/CNRS which has been working with Autonomous Systems have put together a group of open source software for simulation of perception, action and reasoning capabilities.

      It includes Applications for Architecture, Symbolic models and 3D path planning, Simulation and visualization and Interaction and social skills.

     It also includes Tools and Libraries for Trajectory Generation, Communication, Helpers along with an 'Abstract Interface'.

    You can find them at openrobots.org