Mapping Interior Spaces With Robots And GIS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday October 7, 2006 @06:28AM from the now-we'll-know-where-to-put-that-table dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "In an article about GIS and Robotics, Directions Magazine reports that architects and other professionals can now use spatially intelligent robots to collect interior space data. With such mapping robots, it's possible to capture accurate data for over 10,000 square meters per day and to easily integrate it with existing software. The article doesn't mention the sources for its illustrations about these robotic systems, so I thought I'd point them out: a company in Maine called Penobscot Bay Media. You'll find more details and pictures about these mapping robots at ZDNet."

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This first attempted application for these... by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-07 06:36 · Score: 3, Funny

...was in colonoscopies, but all of the patients so far have died of massive internal bleeding.
Cool by fa2k · 2006-10-07 07:35 · Score: 3, Funny

Can I have my home as a CS:Source map now, please ?

Seriously though, I don't see many uses for this isolated tech. It is, however, necessary to have something like this in 'intelligent' robots.
Re:How to Block Roland Piquepaille by Dysproxia · 2006-10-07 08:14 · Score: 5, Funny

here's the Greasemonkey script I wrote to hide Roland Piquepaille stories from Slashdot
Why aren't you using it then?