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Small-Scale Warrior Robot Truck

Posted by timothy on from the going-to-sue-over-that-name dept.

Phoebus0 writes "The Oregon Health and Science University's Department of Computer Science and Engineering has been developing what looks like a massive robot truck of the future - only on a slightly smaller scale. It appears to use some fairly cool stuff on a really small platform, literally. It's called the Timbot, and is supposed to be able to act and get around independently, with only high-level instructions. The robot is running embedded Linux with 802.11b ethernet, a micro pan/tilt camera, and a bunch of other sensors. It's partially funded by DARPA, and the current press release can be found here. I want one!" I hope they commericialize and sell this, looks much better than my old Tonka truck.

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  1. TIMMAY!!! by dildatron · · Score: 5, Funny

    I know it looks more like an rc truck, but with a name like "Timbot", I just picture a wheel-chair-looking robot bumping into walls all the time shouting "Timmay! ... Timmay!"

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  2. Hmmm...Nostalgia by da3dAlus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let's see....robot + truck...
    = REAL LIFE TRANSFORMERS!

    Cool. My very own Optimus Prime. How much?

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  3. This raises an entirely new issue... by jcrb · · Score: 5, Funny


    how the heck do you warchalk a moving access point????

    Someone needs to go out and start printing the bumper stickers now... "Public 802.11 on board"

    And police cars with 802.11 would be what then? "Honey tankers"?

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  4. Hey! That's my server. by azimir · · Score: 5, Funny

    Gack.

    Thanks guys. That's our server you've slashdotted.
    Took us a 15 minutes to figure out why to load was hovering over 5 with 150 httpds running. Since it also handles our imap stuff..... no email for us!

    I just happened to visit slashdot in frustration (don't we all?) and noticed the Timbot stuff on the front page. Mystery solved.

    Maybe I'll got across the hall and tell the Timbot guy why his email is not working right now, or I'll just sit here and wait it out.

    The server has 12 85MHz procs & 1.5 Gigs of ram. It is a big, literally the size of a fridge, older Sun server.

    I just wish I had a picture of the thing to link to. Big monster, huge slashdotting. Slashdot wins again.

    *sigh*

    --Azimir