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Windows-based Robot and Development Platform
Monsieur La Vigne writes "I found this Robot running Windows, based on a STM 486 chip, and 802.11 connectivity. Apparently, the critter has a C++ , Matlab (?) based SDK and some proprietary bus for extension. Not sure what it does, but it looks cool. Has anyone ever heard of these guys or seen the SDK? Seems ripe for a linux port!" It's a little bit expensive.
From the home page, it seems that the development environment runs on Windows, but nowhere does it imply that the actual thing runs on Windows.
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A vacuum cleaner running windows. Wonderful.
Where's the robotic arm (for fetching beer), and the catapult, the bowel loosening sonic alarm?
Wake up, people, and give us what we want!
It says...
"Wany Robotic Software Lab for writing custom applications and
3-D simulation in Microsoft Windows.
It does not say that it runs on Microsoft Windows.
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The article says, that the development was done on Windows. not that the robot itself is running on Windows.
Combine this with the fact, that they're using Matlab and C/C++ and this means that they're using the great API Matlab has, for tuning Matlab code in C++ and vice versa. They're also using Matlab for the reason that it's _the_ application for simulation and generally scientific computing from a whole range of sciences.
What I don't get is, why don't they use Matlab in Unix? A Unix version exists, costs the same, but I've never seen a simple copy of it ever. And I've been using Matlab for 6 years now...
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I'd rather go for the Pino and the GPLd Open Pino Platform Pino
The platform is far more impressive.
"Between strong and weak, between rich and poor [...], it is freedom which oppresses and the law which sets free"
- only cost a few hundred bucks to build
- doesn't look like an insect
- RUNS LINUX.
see it here