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Turn a multi-legged robot into a vacuum cleaner. Roomba style vacuum cleaners can not deal with obstructions like cables, cords, a dropped pen, toys on the flo
by rapjr9 5y ago
Turn a multi-legged robot into a vacuum cleaner. Roomba style vacuum cleaners can not deal with obstructions like cables, cords, a dropped pen, toys on the floor, a sheet of paper on the floor, etc. A Spot-like robot could recognize and walk over all these and be able to get into odd nooks with a direct-able vacuum. The main difficulties would seem to be 2D path planning based on stereovision and 3D guidance of the vacuum nozzle, probably also based on stereovision. There are quite a few open source quadraped robots out there now, some you can just buy. Seems like a fairly well bounded problem and could make the world a cleaner place!
- swman 5y agoI just imagined a AT-AT looking robot with a elephant trunk hose walking around cleaning… That would be dope.