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Cruise Missile Navigation - For Robots Like Roomba

Posted by timothy on from the sinister-just-means-left dept.

quackking writes "Relentless price dropping continues. Samsung patents a system which navigates a robotic vacuum using infrared sensors, map matching. When I worked on this stuff at a gov't spook lab long ago our group budget was in the mid 8 digits. Read all about it here. How hard would it be to repurpose this technology to more sinister uses?"

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  1. In Soviet America... by DarkKnightRadick · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The robot commands you!

    From the article:
    "The owner can instruct the robot to clean the room according to its preprogrammed path or, if the furniture has been moved, create a new map."

    This is definitly on my Christmas wish list. I wonder if the software has a Linux port, or is it only Mac/Windows?

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    "There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)