Setup Guide

Follow these steps to unpack your Baxter Research Robot, setup your Development Workstation, install all required software, and execute a sample program on the robot.

1. Setup Development Workstation
   System requirements

• Installing Ubuntu and ROS
• Setting up Github
• Installing the Research SDK

2. Setup Baxter

• Installing the Baxter Research Robot Hardware

3. Connect to your Baxter

• Connecting the Development Workstation to Baxter

Next: Running Example Research SDK Programs

You may also be interested in checking out the Video Tutorials, which parallel the wiki instructions.

What's Next?

Running some of the Examples is a great place to start seeing what Baxter Research Robot can do.

If you are interested in understanding more about using Baxter and its components, check out the User Guides.