[TheForge] robot

Fri Mar 19 17:15:16 2004

Uses 6 pc's running rtlinux
Has some other vids there of it tracking people and observing cars looking
for a car with the bonnet up, it spots it and walks up to it. So I think its
pretty much thinking for itself so to speak.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Frost" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 5:43 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] robot

> Geeze!
>
> I wonder how much outside control he's using or if it's really autonomous?
> Stopping the Rover was poetry in motion. I especially love the way the
> shoulder tires spin when the arms move.
>
> Frosty
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Shannell Sugrue" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 3:32 PM
> Subject: [TheForge] robot
>
>
> > Anyone seen this yet?
http://www.r50rd.co.uk/research/internal/v2i/engin/
> > its a robot built from mini cooper parts and its simply amazing, the
best
> > video is of it stopping a car link here, only 560kb
> > http://www.r50rd.co.uk/research/internal/v2i/engin/videos/stop_test.mpg
> > Bit off topic but the engineering is amazing...
> >
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