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A Robot To Follow "Mother" And Another To Block Her

Posted by timothy on from the unless-these-are-fake dept.

fireflash writes: "Some folks at MIT have had a bit of fun with robots. 'Mr. Mallard' and 'Roboguard' are robots that follow a homing beacon and guard hallways, respectively. Wouldn't you like to be followed around by a mess of wires and boards whilst attempting to pass through a hallway guarded by another? Sounds like the ultimate in home security to me :-)."

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  1. Re:Um... by Silicon+Avatar · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Well, then, they'll just take their broken robot BACK home, build larger lego pieces of out solid metal, put him/her/it back together again. The next time you try to go into your porn magazine store and you see this guy guarding you because you are underage, let's see you kick him/her/it THEN! :)

  2. even cooler robots by guidobot · · Score: 4, Interesting

    An even more interesting robot is the one at CMU that walks around talking to people & showing facial expressions... these roboguard robots don't seem all that advanced, especially after seeing robot museum guides, nurses, and lots of other cool robots.

  3. Kickbot, a robot you can kick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So if you guys like Nick, Jaeyon, Godfrey and Magda's robots, you should check out Kickbot, a robot Chris and I made for the same class that was designed to be kicked. (These were for Rodney Brooks' Embodied Intelligence class)

    check out this link for details Kickbot Homepage

    And if Chris' connection gets slashdotted the final paper with all of the cool pictures can be seen at Paper Mirror PDF (1.4MB)

  4. The Learning Company did this in the 80's by Mr+Slushy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Back in the '80s, I worked on a DOS port of an Apple II game called "Robot Odyssey" where there were "guard 'bots" that guarded certain items. In order to win, you had to program a robot with digital logic circuits to bypass the guards, or solve a puzzle.

    The game was way cool, but too hard for the casual gamer. I understand the game was even used in electronics classes to teach digital logic.

    Here [members.aol.com] is a site where you can see screenshots or download copies of the Apple II and DOS version.

    I recall that the DOS version only worked on 8086/286 machines with color monitor and joystick.

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