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Introduction
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Welcome to *Exp[licit]*-robotics! Our software can be used to model and simulate a variety of robots. The algorithms behind the software
are based on the Differential Geometric concept, called *Product of Exponentials Formula*.


The software is created and maintained by `Moses C. Nah`_ and `Johannes Lachner`_, two researchers from the Newman Lab at 
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). 
Currently, a stable version of `Exp[licit]-MATLAB`_ is available. Prototype versions of *Exp[licit]-C++*, and *Exp[licit]-FRI* are also 
available and can be installed from our `Github repository`_. *Exp[licit]-py* will be published soon.

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.. _`Moses C. Nah`: https://github.com/mosesnah-shared
.. _`Johannes Lachner`: https://jlachner.github.io/
.. _`Github repository`: https://github.com/explicit-robotics/
.. _`Exp[licit]-MATLAB`: https://github.com/explicit-robotics/Explicit-MATLAB