Small-Scale Warrior Robot Truck

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.

Comments

Tonka

[mustangdavis]

I hope they commericialize and sell this, looks much better than my old Tonka truck.

You must have REALLY been hard on your toys!

But in order for the Timbot to "make it" on the open market, they're DEFINATELY going to need to do some marketing ... the concept is cool, but that thing is UGLY! You'd think they'd have enough money left in their grant to put a cheesy plastic cover on the top of it ... putting the PC on the board just isn't very stylish. If they really wanted to do it with some style, take a page out of Dr. Emmitt Brown's book and cover it with stainless steal and make it look like a DeLorian!

But I don't think this toy would last half as long as your Tonka truck did in its current state ... we're gonna need titainium!!

Hmmm....

[mtnharo]

Funded by DARPA = Eventual military use for this...

So what exactly is this for, remotely wardriving in Afganistan?

Looks similar

[willpost]

Reminds me of the projects people bring to the Homebrew Robotics Club

http://www.hbrobotics.org/