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  1. Re:Good application for iRobot Create by reed · · Score: 1 · on Robotic Presence For a Telecommuter

    Or use this: http://www.mobilerobots.com/PatrolBot.html or this: http://www.activrobots.com/ROBOTS/peoplebot.html

    (disclaimer: I work for the company that makes those.)

  2. Re:$40,000???!!! by Grond · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Formally Releases Robotics Software

    This is what you get: Pioneer P3DX

    Anyone has used player/stage will recognize this as sort of the 'default' robot that the simulator uses.
    It's a two wheel differential-drive base that uses sonar for range finding and object detection. On top you can mount all manner of sensors and actuators.

    I have no idea if they really cost that much, though. By implication from this page and this page, though, the P3-DX costs something like $10,000 with an educational discount.

  3. Looks like a pioneer by nich37ways · · Score: 1 · on Mapping Interior Spaces With Robots And GIS

    From the article it looks a lot like an ActivMedia Pioneer with a SICK laser which you can control through Player/Stage and includes all of the mapping algrothims, still have to do work to make it work however.

    This looks like a fairly standard reasearch project for undergrad student, player/stage is littered with uni students asking questions about using these type of modules

    I am not suprised by the lack of accuracy in the shown map, you normally get a lot of errors due to the robot not accurately figuring out where it is everytime it turns even slightly. Onboard odometry is never that good.

    If you want something slightly more cutting edge, yet still old look at the mapping out of something like Kurt3D

  4. Check out the robot platform by bass_ackwards · · Score: 1 · on Robots to Help the Blind

    I think it is just an ActivMedia Pioneer robot http://www.activrobots.com/ One of these was used for a robotics lab at my university. I didn't get to play with it much, but it contains a full blown PC with linux and an xterm on it.

  5. Video of one of the robots in action... by jgarland79 · · Score: 1 · on Wi-Fi Security Robots?

    http://www.activrobots.com/PICTURES/P3AT.mpg Wow! I need one of these!

  6. Implications? by SnatMandu · · Score: 3 · on $6 System-On-A-Chip Mimics Human Vision
    If this is half of what's it's cracked up to be, I'm pretty impressed. I played around with mobile robots at the university, and doing anything based on vision was very difficult. Most of the time it was easier to solve a problem with sonar. Sonar works great for finding walls and stuff, but as soon as you introduce moving objects into the environment, it gets less useful.

    If this chip is really as capable as it's made out to be, it will mean a great deal to people who are primarily interested in autonomous mobile robots, as opposed to computer vision.

    I could imagine hooking something like this up to a pioneer and solving a bunch of problems.

    Sort of makes me wish I were still a student, with the time and resources to play with robots...