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Today in Skynet news [Sun, 18-Oct-2009 3:32 PM]
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The maps that it builds at around 1:09 and 1:54 are pretty sweet.

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[User Picture]From: [info]ultranurd
Sun, 18-Oct-2009 11:08 PM (UTC)

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It even comes with ominous sound effect.

At least I know I'll be first against the wall, being only one town over.
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[User Picture]From: [info]vaevictus_net
Mon, 19-Oct-2009 1:31 AM (UTC)

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did anyone else think "omg manhacks?"
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[User Picture]From: [info]Dennis [netstrata.com]
Mon, 19-Oct-2009 1:46 AM (UTC)

Meh.

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Meh. My Roomba can do all of that.

Wait. Does it count if I fling it like a discus?
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[User Picture]From: [info]lnghnds
Mon, 19-Oct-2009 2:36 AM (UTC)

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Could the narrator be any less interested?
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[User Picture]From: [info]mister_borogove
Mon, 19-Oct-2009 5:18 AM (UTC)

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I think you just signed up to re-record the narration in monster truck style. We'll expect to see it posted next SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY
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From: [info]dasht
Tue, 20-Oct-2009 6:26 AM (UTC)

the academic voice

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All the academic robotics labs videos sound just like that. It's the same way researchers all (with rare exceptions, like, say, Guy Steele in CS) learn to write papers in the same "voice".

It's neutral. It shuns hype. It plays well with the the boys and girls with brass on their shoulders.

-t
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[User Picture]From: [info]spoonyfork
Mon, 19-Oct-2009 3:41 AM (UTC)

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That so reminded me of playing Adventure on a green screen back in the 1980's.
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[User Picture]From: [info]luserspaz
Mon, 19-Oct-2009 2:08 PM (UTC)

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This is totally awesome. I can't believe they haven't outfitted it with some sort of nerf missile launcher, though. At least, if they have, they haven't put the video online yet.
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[User Picture]From: [info]lionsphil
Mon, 19-Oct-2009 7:49 PM (UTC)

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Being MIT, I'd really hope they'd done that by now.
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[User Picture]From: [info]gfish
Mon, 19-Oct-2009 6:53 PM (UTC)

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And suddenly the world discovers SLAM, weird. The cool thing here is the precision of control over the helicopter, not the LIDAR mapping. That's 5-10 years old.
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[User Picture]From: [info]mackys
Mon, 19-Oct-2009 11:15 PM (UTC)

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I'm impressed they managed to get a LIDAR sensor onto a model helicopter. Those sensors must have gotten at least two orders of magnitude smaller and lighter than they were the last time I saw them.
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[User Picture]From: [info]gfish
Tue, 20-Oct-2009 2:22 AM (UTC)

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Yeah, it looks like one of the new Hokuyo units that my lab was playing with last year. They're pretty sweet for the size. I'm impressed they could carry the weight and power it.
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[User Picture]From: [info]mackys
Tue, 20-Oct-2009 7:37 AM (UTC)

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2.3 x 2.3 x 3.5" and less than a pound! Holy fucking fuck, that's unbelievable.

Thanks for sharing!
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[User Picture]From: [info]hafnir
Mon, 19-Oct-2009 11:34 PM (UTC)

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Wow, that's like my MIT thesis on lots of steroids! (I'll send you the link private).
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