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A Mobile Robot For Modeling The World In 3D

Posted by Hemos on from the mobilizing-the-machine dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "A German team from Fraunhofer AIS has coupled a fast autonomous robot with a 3D laser scanner to digitize the environment. The team reports about their work in this article, one of fifteen on the subject of machine perception published by ERCIM News. "Kurt3D is an autonomous mobile robot equipped with a reliable and precise 3D laser scanner that digitalizes environments. High quality geometric 3D maps with semantic information are automatically generated after the exploration by the robot." This overview tells you more about the four-step method used to generate 3D models with this robot and contains several pictures of Kurt3D and its 3D laser."

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  1. heh.... by maniac/dev/null · · Score: 0, Redundant

    can you say UT map?

    seriously, i would love to go around my office/university/town with a chaingun and have a little fire fight...

  2. I for one welcome... by 4sheez · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I for one welcome my new kurt3D overlord!

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    Down, down, down. The Red knight's goin' down.
  3. I would like to be the first... by slappyjack · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...to welcome our newly autonomous Robot Masters in their next step in the evolution to reigning supreme on this planet.

    The Matrix and The The Terminator series are just stories for entertainment, my Metal Lords, we do not see it them an inspiration or blueprints for self preservation.

    I apologize for my fellow fleshlings' urge to make mundane use of you to create maps for our bloodsport. They know not their folly. I beg to to have mercy on them in your Brutally Controlled Future Earth.

    ROBOTS RULE! HUMANS DROOL!

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    s'wut i sed.