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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.
Okay, I'm going to render a bunch of future posts Redundant. Moderators, your job is to read my post, then go down the line and mod the following ones down as -1, Redundant. Ready?
- It's running Linux! That's great! This means that people will be able to reprogram it!
- Good thing it's not running Windows, then the truck would crash. *Giggle giggle snort snort.*
- Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of these!
- Why would anybody want something like this? All it is is a lump of plastic and some computery bits.
- Wow, imagine the cool things you could do with this!
- 1.) Make Robotic Cars, 2.) Use Linux as the OS, 3.) Place sensors on them, 4.) Support 802.11, 5.) ????, 6.) Profit!!!
- Heh, it'd be funny if I used this in a bizarre way.
- Oh c'mon, the site's already Slashdotted? Good thing I'm around to let other people know!
There, now you loot know what has already been said. Now you can think about a more interesting point to make!
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