Trossen's latest contest winner

Trossen Robotics has announced the winner of their latest TR Community contest. The winner is Otto. Well, Otto is the bot, Kdwyer is the builder and actual winner. Trossen writes:
Otto is a humanoid/track hybrid droid with an incredible range of capabilities. Kdwyer's mission was to make an autonomous robot that could avoid obstacles, track motion, and interact with people through speech and gestures. Otto's brain follows a distributed architecture, employing 2 Oopic R's (the "upper" and "lower" brains). He boasts a boatload of sensors, such as IR rangefinders, Ultrasonic rangefinders, a digital compass, and a color video camera. We like this project a lot, mostly because it was built from the ground up using a pile of hardware from numerous different sources.
Otto Lives - Link
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Dec 11, 2007 06:00 PM
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| Posted by: archcvd on December 11, 2007 at 7:51 PM |
A lot of of the stuff you see on that robot are actually available as a kit from http://www.lynxmotion.com/
Check out the Johnny 5 kit this one is based on:
http://www.lynxmotion.com/Category.aspx?CategoryID=103
| Posted by: HowardC on December 12, 2007 at 12:11 AM |
Yeah I was gonna say, this is about as original as China's revolutionary "Vii" console. That is blatently J5.
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