On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Harry Veeder <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> > I think the point is: you can tell it to go from point A to point B in a >> > battlefield, and it goes by itself. Leading it on a leash would defeat >> > the >> > purpose. >> >> >> Maybe that is the long term goal, but in this video they have the >> robot following someone around. > > > That is another useful skill in war. The two amount to the same thing from a > robotics point of view. Autonomous operation in both cases. When you order > it from A to B the goal is fixed. When you order it to follow, the starting > point A is fixed, and B keeps changing. You can see how it works in the > right hand window of the robot's mapping operation. You can see it select > and then modify a path, as it bumps into trees and whatnot. >
yeah your right, a leash works on beings with feelings...this thing doesn't feel. Harry
