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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. Re:TIMMAY!!! by dildatron · · Score: 5, Informative

    shoot. looks like there site is gettings slashdotted. Here is a mirror of the picture.

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  2. Re:Reminds me of my childhood by teamhasnoi · · Score: 5, Informative

    It was called the Big Trak, and I think that's what was used to host the (currently /.ed) website.

  3. Mirror of full story by mustangdavis · · Score: 5, Informative

    I mirrored the entire story from http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~mpj/timbot/index.html before it got /.'ed.

    Go to http://hosting.coldfirestudios.com/slashdot/timbot / for the full article and pics.

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  4. Heh, it's finally a monster truck by Omega+Hacker · · Score: 5, Informative

    I built the first two versions of this project, originally called "OGI'maBot", while I worked at the Oregon Graduate Institute (OGI). The first was a laptop on a trailer behind a manually controlled RC car. The second, OGI'maBot2, was an AT motherboard on top of a rally-truck RC chassis. The most expensive single part was the power converter to run the motherboard. The "TimBot" is the 4th iteration of the project AFAICT, the third one being somewhere in between.

    You can get more info on the 2nd generation at http://www.omegacs.net/~omega/ogimabot2/, but please be kind, it's my home DSL line.

    The software was very cool, the infrastructure directly led to the GStreamer project that I started while working there. I guess I should go back out there soon and have a closer look at this thing ;-)

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