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likewhoa l33t
Joined: 04 Oct 2006 Posts: 778 Location: Brooklyn, New York
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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 5:20 am Post subject: NASA buys cutting-edge Cornish robot |
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This is so cool i just had to share it with you all.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/07/robothespian_nasa_purchase/
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RoboThespian is built on Gentoo Linux - we have spent three years developing the core software which we intend to release open source around Xmas this year. The software will work equally well for programming hobby and research robots - it provides an abstraction layer between hardware and high level software, as well as a method for recording and mixing motion routines, controlling text to speech, speech recognition and face recognition and other 'intelligent' modules.
The main reason for not releasing the code OS to date is the incomplete documentation - we will also hope to include a binary package for Ubuntu. We also have a virtual RoboThespian built in Blender which we use to program the real thing.
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kernelOfTruth Watchman
Joined: 20 Dec 2005 Posts: 6111 Location: Vienna, Austria; Germany; hello world :)
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Randy Andy Veteran
Joined: 19 Jun 2007 Posts: 1148 Location: /dev/koelsch
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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 4:39 pm Post subject: |
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Fascinating
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