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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.
prepare to be ./'d
try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
Actually, I should have been more specific: it looks better in *capabilities* than my old Tonka truck, which got lost in some move probably 20 years ago ... Tonka stuff looks good, is built correctly, but has no camera, programmability.
:) However, my elder brother created some sort of goo -- by mixing things from the completely unsafe under-the-kitchen-counter chemical lab -- which managed to *wrinkle* part of the surface on my Tonka. I was mad, but I was also impressed, and even more so in retrospect. What chemicals under the sink would wrinkle that %$#@ tough metal?!
Interesting note: Tonka toys are hard to destruct, as you see aware
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5