Autonomous Robots

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• mpullin Obvious Troll Account, Marked for Deletion

  March 2012

  Neato!!!!!

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• HARMAN_Chris Harman Professional University

  March 2012

  Very Cool! Thanks for sharing!

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• Don DeLong Junior Member

  March 2012

  So when will we have a module for these?

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• Joe Hebert Junior Member

  March 2012

  Wow, that was impressive.
  
  Here’s a link with a video that was posted today of a robot cheetah that set a land speed record.
  
  http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/darpas-robot-cheetah-sets-land-speed-record-2012036/

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• PhreaK Senior Member

  March 2012

  Saw that one the other day. There is some very funky research happening with what is possible with quad/hex/octo-copters.
  
  @Don
  I don't have a module for these, but I do have an AR.Drone that I'm working on building Pd externals for so I can take advantage of all its vision processing. The thing is freaking amazing - its a flying linux box.

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• Don DeLong Junior Member

  March 2012

  PhreaK wrote: »

  @Don
  I don't have a module for these, but I do have an AR.Drone that I'm working on building Pd externals for so I can take advantage of all its vision processing. The thing is freaking amazing - its a flying linux box.

  
  Wow, that thing looks awesome. Definitely on my wish list Wonder how far I can get it to go with a decent WiFi router outdoors?

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• PhreaK Senior Member

  March 2012

  I wouldn't worry about a WiFi upgrade, people have hacked 3G modems onto them - much further reach.

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• jweather Junior Member

  March 2012

  Every few months I geek out on the videos from Kiva material handling systems: http://www.kivasystems.com/ The bots are centrally coordinated rather than being autonomous, but the scope of the algorithms and systems involved is just staggering, and they're fun to watch, too.

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• DHawthorne Junior Member

  March 2012

  I've seen videos of quads playing ping-pong, and cooperatively building a wall with interlocking blocks. I also saw a very wild one where they played the James Bond theme on a set of instruments: a couple of them were popping up and down on levers attached to a keyboard, a queue of them were dragging metal posts along a horizontal ladder thingie for percussion, etc.
  
  What I keep thinking is the prospects for this kind of control on a micro scale. Nanobots anyone?

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• Don DeLong Junior Member

  March 2012

  As long as they incorporate this into their code:
  
  http://xkcd.com/534/

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