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Humanoid Powered by Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the hey-why-not dept.

lems1 was among the avalanche of people who submitted this Linux powered Humanoid. The website has pictures and videos if you're curious. We're not exactly worrying about him seeking out the blue fairy or anything, but its nifty.

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  1. Big Deal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    A great many of the Japanese humanoid robots are powered by Linux. For example, the PINO microhumanoid from the ERATO Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project runs on RT Linux. I saw that one at IJCAI this year, very nice. Of course, the most famous of 'em all, Honda's P3, runs on Solaris. I hung out at the P3 facility at Honda in north Tokyo for a while while staying at Sony. They have a bunch of SPARC rackmounts stored in their backpacks, and run off a remote radio link controlled by UltraSparc stations sitting on a table a ways away.

    I am constantly amazed how Slashdot can get its underwear bundled up in a wad over almost trivially insignificant, highly redundant facts.

  2. Re:i cant resist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Take a look at MIT's Kismet robotics project.

    http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/sociable/baby-bit s. html

    Run by a cluster of 9 QNX computers (400 MHz CPU on each computer) for all the important primary systems, a dual 450 MHz NT computer (for speech synthesis and voice affective intent recognition system) and a 500 MHz Linux computer (for speech recognition).

    It really tells you how far advance QNX is in the "realtime" business.