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Turtlebot seems to be a good starting point. I started with a Create 2 and found it pretty usable, starting from zero knowledge. I would recommend a Kobuki-based Turtlebot 2 because most of the examples assume Kobuki. Unless you are going with Turtlebot 3, I have no experience with that but it did not look like a robot I could use.

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