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GUIs for Robots

Posted by michael on from the click-drag-boom dept.

kabir writes "OpenGL.org has a link to a fun article over at the Stanford Aerospace Robotics Laboratory. It seems an OpenGL-based GUI has been developed to enable the operation of multiple complex field robots by a single operator. The interaction mechanism was inspired by interface techniques refined in the Real-Time Strategy (RTS) genre of video games. Fifty years from now I expect all wars to be fought by giant robots controlled by teenagers."

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  1. Games by GigsVT · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The interaction mechanism was inspired by interface techniques refined in the Real-Time Strategy (RTS) genre of video games.

    This is interesting. Often it seems the games are ahead of the "serious apps".

    One of my friends in high school put together a level in Duke Nukem 3D that was based on our high school. It was pretty accurate. This was pre-columbine, so nobody was thrown in jail for it.

    If these game companies just put a little extra effort into retrofitting their game engines for serious purposes, they might sell the same thing for hundreds of dollars a copy. Imagine something like a first person shooter combined with The Sims. You could design your whole house, to scale, and then walk through it.

    Click a menu option and output a postscript file to send to the structural engineer and architect for tweaks and approval.

    Whoever does this will probably make lots of money.

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  2. Japanese sci-fi predictions? by Cryptnotic · · Score: 5, Funny
    Fifty years from now I expect all wars to be fought by giant robots controlled by teenagers.

    That's what Japanese science fiction aniume has been predicting for at least 23 years. Macross, Gundam, etc...

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  3. Winning these new robot-controlled wars by hlynna · · Score: 5, Funny

    1) Don't take your eyes off the screen. You might get fragged.

    2) Don't take your hand off the mouse. You might get fragged.

    3) You only have one life. Use it wisely. And don't get fragged.

    Hlynna

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  4. A total reversal by MarkusQ · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Fifty years from now I expect all wars to be fought by giant robots controlled by teenagers

    In stark contrast to the situation today, where wars are fought by teenagers controlled by giant robots.

    -- MarkusQ