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Robotics => Robotics News => Topic started by: Art on June 01, 2011, 10:10:28 pm
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Bugbots? Yep and they're good enough to possibly be deployed at a war near you! ;)
Check out these flying marvelous mineature mighty mites!! Mmmm...
http://video.designworldonline.com/bugbots.html (http://video.designworldonline.com/bugbots.html)
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very cool and dangerous stuff. I hope the air force realizes this can be used against them pretty effectively: put a bunch of these in the air with a small explosive payload and use them as air- mines for aircrafts and bombs.
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I would think the Air Force along with its top scientists and researchers would be bright enough to build in
a fail-safe system, whereas if one of these bots did not return to its base or complete its mission, then it
would simply self destruct. (or at least mine would if I made them and didn't want to risk them falling
into enemy hands for duplication) ;)
Then again, we're talking about the government here aren't we!! ;)
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That makes me think about a report I recently saw on tele how a terrorists toolkit these days contains a lap top with satellite connection, to capture the images of the UAV's, so the terrorists can check were the good guys are looking at ;D Time to scramble those images, I say.
Seriously though, these little automated things can be very useful indeed, in all manners. As long as they don't fall in the wrong guys hands,.. ohh wait ???
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Also useful for rescue missions after something like an Earth quake I imagine. They can get into places we simply can't for it being unsafe or just too far out of reach.
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Combine with http://www.aishack.in/2011/04/predator-tracking-learning/ (http://www.aishack.in/2011/04/predator-tracking-learning/) and you've got some pretty damn neat tools for tracking bad guys. Or good guys. Or - well - whatever you want to track.
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That Predator software is impressive, clever guy. 8)
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More surprising is that the author has released the SOURCE CODE!
Scroll to the bottom of the article if your wish to have it.
It runs under Linux which will be a nevermind for most.
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It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac, but requires matlab.
https://github.com/zk00006/OpenTLD/wiki/Installation
Matlab is a ripoff, but there are trial versions available.
Better to get set up with SciLab, GNU Octave, or one of the other free alternatives.
Regardless of what you use, the source is pretty well modularized. It'd probably be a 1 weekend job to convert it to your language of choice. I might do that next weekend if I can get ahold of a good webcam.
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That would be amazing if you could. I liked that face recognition feature he demonstrated - being able to correctly identify someone's face would be a nice feature for home automation and assistants. Ones I have seen in the past fall over when you wear a different colour jumper.