[OT] Informations about Orocos

Hello everybody!
I'm an Italian undergraduate student of the University of Padova.
First of all I apologize for my bad English.
For an exam I plan to study the structure of Orocos platform and the way it 
works. I have a normal Pc computer running linux, and I have not a real 
robot. So my question is: can I compile orocos and see some kind of results 
also without a robot? I've seen in the documentation that Orocos runs fine on 
RTAI or on a normal Linux kernel, but without a robot what kind of 
functionalities can I observe? Can I integrate Orocos with some kind of 
graphic visulization tool of, for example, a robotic arm with 6 DOF? I've 
seen you plan to use Blender for this....

If the informations I need are present in the manuals please sorry, I have 
take a survey of the various platform for robots (ex. miro) so I have not yet 
readed the manuals in details: I am trying to figure out what kind of work 
can I build around the various platforms without a robot.

Thanks a lot for your attention and time!

 Enrico Marchetto