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Why not start with something less ambitious, like low cost robot platform able to follow people and carry stuff around and avoid obstacles. No arms, I am okay u
by rini17 3y ago
Why not start with something less ambitious, like low cost robot platform able to follow people and carry stuff around and avoid obstacles. No arms, I am okay using mine to put stuff on and off it.
When I had leg injury and used crutches, carrying stuff around suddenly became a problem. There are many people with impaired movement. And even without that, I often misplace things and it could help there.
There are plenty of toy robot undercarriages on aliexpress but too small (under 20cm largest dimnsion) to be practical.
- MattHeard 3y agoi was going to ask if turtlebot was too small for you, but thought i should check the price first so uh, yeah, i'm guessing you're thinking the 250 price point instead of the turtlebot's 1000+
- deelly 3y ago> low cost robot platform able to follow people and carry stuff around and avoid obstacles. So, basically autonomous self-driving mini vehicle. Сompanies spend billions on self-driving cars with quite limited luck.
- penjelly 3y agothat is because they run in a very different environment than an RC-size car in your living room would
- RobotToaster 3y ago> Сompanies spend billions on self-driving cars with quite limited luck. That's in part because it needs to be very reliable to not kill people. If the worst that can happen is killing a garden gnome or running over someone's toes you can tolerate more error.
- eichin 3y agoYeah, a "small enough to kick out of your way" autonomous driving project is a one or two semester student project (if you're starting from nothing, Sebastian Thrun's old Udacity course was a good way to bootstrap through the algorithmic parts, then maybe watch James Bruton for "everything you could possibly imagine doing with wheels, motors, and an infinite supply of 3d printer filament")
- jollyllama 3y ago100%. Arms are hard. Mobility is hard. Mobile arms are double hard.
- rini17 3y agoNo, rather a larger version of robotic vacuum.
- numpad0 3y agoBellabot[0] comes to mind, there's also a startup doing Roomba-like bot that magnetically dock to specially designed shelves. Though, they don't sell for $250, so actual Roombas and ROS mods for "hoverboard" Segway clones[3] might be more cost effective. 0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1hQ5YTMJEw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1hQ5YTMJEw 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdVglHOJgiA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdVglHOJgiA 2: https://github.com/hoverboard-robotics/hoverboard-driver/tree/humble https://github.com/hoverboard-robotics/hoverboard-driver/tre...
- adolph 3y ago“Follow me” luggage exists https://www.aristavault.com/products/follow-me-smart-luggage https://www.aristavault.com/products/follow-me-smart-luggage
- eichin 3y agoalso https://piaggiofastforward.com/ https://piaggiofastforward.com/ "gita" (I'm not sure what the market is for fashionable luggage-robots, but they're definitely going after it...)