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# Blossom

Blossom is an open-hardware, open-source tensile robot that you can handcraft and accessorize to your liking. You can read more about the project in [Evan Ackerman's IEEE Spectrum article](https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/home-robots/blossom-a-creative-handmade-approach-to-social-robotics-from-cornell-and-google).
Blossom is an open-hardware, open-source tensile robot that you can handcraft and accessorize to your liking. You can read more about the project in the [ACM T-HRI Paper](https://doi.org/10.1145/3310356) and in [Evan Ackerman's IEEE Spectrum article](https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/home-robots/blossom-a-creative-handmade-approach-to-social-robotics-from-cornell-and-google).

Here are two examples of Blossom robots:

<img src="http://guyhoffman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/blossom-bunny-corner-e1502812175733-300x189.jpg" width="300">
<img src="http://guyhoffman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/blossom-jellyfish-768x606.jpg" width="300" >
<img src="http://guyhoffman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/blossom-bunny-corner-e1502812175733-300x189.jpg" height="200"> <img src="http://guyhoffman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/blossom-jellyfish-768x606.jpg" height="200" >

**For any questions (assembly or software related), [please check/make public issues](https://github.com/hrc2/blossom-public/issues).**

## How to Cite

If you use this repository or any of its content, please cite it as follows:

Michael Suguitan and Guy Hoffman. 2019. Blossom: A Handcrafted Open-Source Robot. _J. Hum.-Robot Interact. 8_, 1, Article 2 (March 2019), 27 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3310356


Bibtex:
```
@article{suguitan2019blossom,
author = {Suguitan, Michael and Hoffman, Guy},
title = {Blossom: A Handcrafted Open-Source Robot},
year = {2019},
issue_date = {March 2019},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
volume = {8},
number = {1},
doi = {10.1145/3310356},
journal = {J. Hum.-Robot Interact.},
month = {mar},
articleno = {2},
numpages = {27},
keywords = {craft, social robotics, toolkit, handcrafted, robot toolkit, craft robotics,
research platform, open-source, Robot design, soft robotics}
}
```

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# Blossom How-To

## Get repo
In a terminal, clone this repo
```
git clone https://github.com/hrc2/blossom-public/
```
_Download through a package will be added in the future._

## Setup Software Dependencies

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To build your own Blossom, check out the [Build Guide](https://github.com/hrc2/blossom-public/wiki). The rest of this document will teach you how to set up the software to run the robot.

_Note that you need to have the basic software set up to correctly build Blossom_
> **Note**
> You need to have the basic software set up as listed above to build Blossom_

## Running Blossom

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