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Map your home and navigate with TurtleBot 4

Wheeled, Medium

TurtleBot 4 (on an iRobot Create 3 base with lidar and OAK-D camera) is the reference ROS 2 robot for SLAM and Nav2.

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The user manual walks through SLAM mapping, saving the map and sending navigation goals; simulation runs in Gazebo.

Hardware & cost: TurtleBot 4 or 4 Lite, or $0 in Gazebo.

Difficulty: Medium.

Agent install prompt (paste into Claude Code, Cursor or Codex): "Using https://github.com/turtlebot/turtlebot4 and the TurtleBot 4 user manual, launch the Gazebo simulation, build a map with SLAM, and send a Nav2 goal."

Source: turtlebot/turtlebot4 on GitHub — https://github.com/turtlebot/turtlebot4 (facts checked against the project README, Oct 2026; prices vary by region).

Quick answers

What do you need to map your home and navigate with TurtleBot 4?
TurtleBot 4 or 4 Lite, or $0 in Gazebo.
How hard is it to map your home and navigate with TurtleBot 4?
Medium.
Interfaces

Ideas to try with it

Our ideas, not the builder's claims.

  1. Map your apartment once and send it to the kitchen by name
  2. Dock it automatically when the battery gets low
  3. Run a nightly patrol and photograph each room
1 more idea
  1. Practice everything in Gazebo before the robot arrives
Source
turtlebot/turtlebot4 on GitHub
Last commit
2025-09-09
Builder
turtlebot
Repo
turtlebot/turtlebot4, 168 stars
Built with
TurtleBot 3/4

More like this: TurtleBot & ROS 2 wheeled kits · Nav2 navigation

Parts notes for this device are in the Hermes Workshop catalog.

What to build next

Builds that share a board, robot or agent with this one.