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I built a robot with tensorflow running on the raspberry pi to do autonomous driving and computer vision: http://www.jtoy.net/portfolio/ http://www.jtoy.net/por
by toisanji 10y ago
I built a robot with tensorflow running on the raspberry pi to do autonomous driving and computer vision: http://www.jtoy.net/portfolio/ http://www.jtoy.net/portfolio/
I'm working on the next version to make it more useful, but all the technology is not there yet, I want the robot to be able to understand speech and talk back to users. I also want the robot to be able to play games with people. I think the platform has a lot of potential. I want Google to release a low power tensor processing unit made for the pi to make this more useful. This will open up a lot of doors for robot and AI enthusiasts. I'm looking to turn this into a platform, contact me if this is of interest to you.
- herval 10y agoDo you have more details on your T-bot project available somewhere? Sounds pretty interesting
- toisanji 10y agoI just completed the first version last month for an art show. I'm preparing docs to share for it now.
- yardie 10y agoThat would be great! I bought a kit of accessories for the arduino/rpi for my son. He's really getting into building simple robots from Lego Technic. It would be great to incorporate some more advanced projects into his list.
- baq 10y agojust today i was fantasizing about a self-driving autonomous office coffee machine. basically a roomba that brews coffee. perfect for hardcore introverts.
- MrZongle2 10y agoAdd a speaker and media player, and you could have DJ Barista!
- Declanomous 10y agoJust what I don't need -- being forced to interact with a DJ to get my coffee. "What do you want?" "Coffee." "I CAN'T HEAR YOU! I SAID WHAT DO YOU WANT?!" "Give me coffee or I will end you."
- jrockway 10y agoFor the true introvert, I've heard that it's possible to brew your own coffee at home!
- Declanomous 10y agoI buy instant coffee at ALDI. We have a Keurig, but the pods cost a small fortune, and I drink far too much coffee.
- willis77 10y agoI always said the hallmark of a great tool is something that can do 50 things in a shitty way. "ALEXA. ALEXA. SIRI! OKAY GOOGLE? Come here self-driving roomba. Play NPR podcasts and brew me a tepid cup of brown Keurig water while engaging me in a rousing game of Go"
- knicholes 10y agoI'm extremely interested in using autonomous driving and computer vision for a lawnmower. I hate mowing my lawn. I hate mowing my lawn enough to program a robot to mow it for me.
- nitrogen 10y agoSince you control the machine and your yard, you can use cameras mounted to your house for tracking. You don't want smart, you want dumb and predictable. But good luck making something with a rapidly spinning blade safe while unsupervised. It's probably cheaper to hire a landscape maintenance company, or a neighborhood teenager.
- j_s 10y agogood luck making something with a rapidly spinning blade safe while unsupervised Then don't! If it's autonomous it can be out there all the time rather than once a week/whatever, no spinning blade needed. Plan B? Buy a goat.
- dualogy 10y ago> Buy a goat Nah. What we really want and need is a robot that while it mows the lawn, turns it into: its entire energy source, its entire pool of building blocks for daily (nightly?) self-repairs, for reproduction, for producing oh maybe fluffy warm wool and delicious milk/cheese/butter as a side product, and fertilizes the land from the occasional .. discharge resulting from perpetual energy production-consumption and internal cleanups/repairs, finally as it still does wear down as all physical assemblages are wont to with time, it leaves behind highly durable inputs for sturdy clothing and stylish home decoration (horns, hides, leather etc)! All from a friggin lawn. Roboruminant 2.0 baby. Need to reinvent mammalian evolution before we can really reinvent the wheel!
- slightlyCyborg 10y agoPlan C, turn the yard into a garden.
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- tkl 10y agoHey Jason, I'm working on a platform where people can control other people's robots. We're leveraging crowd intelligence as opposed to artificial intelligence, but we'd like to incorporate artificial intelligence soon. Perhaps you'd have some interest to check it out. We're at http://runmyrobot.com http://runmyrobot.com.
- jayajay 10y agoThis site reminds me of https://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon https://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon This is not what I expected when I read your comment. I was expecting a platform where you upload the parameters of a hardware system, the platform digitizes that system into a virtual sandbox, and people can then write arbitrary programs for that system and showcase them in the sandbox, where the uploader can buy, comment, and rate those programs. Something along the lines of https://openai.com/blog/ https://openai.com/blog/
- visarga 10y agoI'm wondering why we don't see robotic chips and pretrained models that solve basic tasks such as vision, audio, NLP and behavior. We already have good models for all of them, but no simple way to mix and match. It would be great if this evolved into an open-source bazaar of neural net models and hardware parts.
- nomel 10y agoThis is why I've invested in Nvidia and a bit in AMD. My assumption is they will get into this business. Their first product would most likely be some vision processor for self driving cars.