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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 909 Joined: 26-August 05 From: Louisville, KY (Well, Memphis, IN technically but you won't know where that is.) Member No.: 7,626  |
In all the CES coverage I found a link to the Sphero robot. The bot charges via induction, like a TouchStone or PowerMat, so there are no ports to get dirty.
Based on the video, it looks like a larger model could easily have a camera or other sensors mounted inside the clear-body model. |
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Jan 9 2011, 05:32 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,379 Joined: 16-April 02 From: the LI shadows Member No.: 2,607 |
If one comes at me, calling itself Haro, I'm drop-kicking it into next week.....
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Jan 9 2011, 04:04 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,113 Joined: 27-November 10 Member No.: 19,186 |
Honestly, unless that thing is packed entirely full, a camera ought to be a piece of cake to install inside second generation models. IRL, it'll need some shock frills though, or someone can just pick it up and walk away with it once it gets out of range to be physically protected by you and your commands.
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Jan 9 2011, 11:10 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,537 Joined: 27-August 06 From: Albuquerque NM Member No.: 9,234 |
Remington sold something they called the "Eye Ball R1" in 2006. Seems to be discontinued now
But here is a web page for it. http://tacticaldepo.com/eyr1suba.html |
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Jan 10 2011, 01:19 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 909 Joined: 26-August 05 From: Louisville, KY (Well, Memphis, IN technically but you won't know where that is.) Member No.: 7,626 |
Looks like the Remington is the immobile sensor ball in Arsenal since the specs have no movement rate, only a revolution speed for pan & tilt.
Shock-frills could be added without much problem. The spherobot already uses induction for charging, the same induction system could send power to the taser unit. |
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