[TheForge] robot

Fri Mar 19 19:54:00 2004

Um, while the guy seems to be a (former?) BMW employee who has 
straightforwardly mentioned that all his design and work has been with the 
mini, this doesn't seem like just another commercial ad.

Is the project simply an advertising hoax, or a gimmick? (i.e. real robot, 
but primarily for advertising purposes?) If that stopping a car video is 
not simply a fancy trick there is a lot of potential from anything from 
runaway vehicles to stopping fleeing criminals. (Can you say LA High Speed 
Chases?)

Aaron

At 06:35 PM 3/19/2004, you wrote:
>It's a mini ad, sorry to disappoint you.
>
>
>
>Richard Maynard
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Shannell Sugrue
> > Sent: 19 March 2004 22:17
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [TheForge] robot
> >
> >
> > 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
> > > ------------------------
> > > If it ain't forged
> > > it ain't real.
> > > Wrought iron is.
> > > The FrostWorks
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> > > Meadow Lakes, AK.
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- 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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