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Intel combines Robots, WLANs, and Linux

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the stealthy-wardrivers dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This article by a researcher in Intel's Emerging Platforms Lab details some of Intel's current research into wireless, mobile robotics technology. A key goal of the effort, according to the article, is to efficiently combine the two technologies -- mobile robotics and wireless networks -- so that mobile robots can serve as gateways into wireless sensor networks. The Intel project is providing robotics researchers with a robotics development package that includes standardized silicon, a Linux-based open-source operating system, and open-source software drivers for robotics applications. Additionally, Intel has released a test version of a technical library for building Bayesian networks, which will help advance the ability of robots to navigate their environments, and pilot systems based on Intel's open-source packages are already being deployed in a variety of flexible environments in agricultural, security, and military applications."

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  1. Why Register? by SpanishInquisition · · Score: -1, Troll

    Can have all the First Post I want.

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    Je t'aime Stéphanie
    1. Re:Why Register? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      The next Slashdot story will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and see it early!

      Better get ready to first post again!

  2. SHIT AND POOP AND SHIT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    poop on slashdot

    heheh

  3. My thoughts on this idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    As a professor of Robotics and WLANs at Harverd, let me just say that this is fucking dumbest idea EVER.

    This just can't work. I'd like to try and explain it to you, but as most of you aren't professors at Harverd you'd never understand.

    Just take my word on this one.

  4. Re:The Three Laws of Robitcs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You are a fucking stupid Linux zealot. MS will bring robots to the masses.

  5. So? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I did all this with a 3 year old Mandrake box and an Aibo. I wrote a paper titled "Teledildonics... how the pr0n industry will drive telepresence and robotics mainstream"