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I Saw This

I Saw this

Evolution Robotics

And I thought of you.

(like the post office advert ;)

935 posts.
Saturday 20 April, 14:12
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An open and shut case

An interesting site, if only for the curious ommission of any actual pictures of robots constructed with the kit.

This project looks open only in a very limited sense. It looks like there are APIs but that the actual source code remains proprietory. Also the kits look astronomically expensive compared to the sort of budget which I built Rodney on.

My own reasons for making Rodney an "open" project was driven mainly by the frustration at the lack of openness found in robotics projects elsewhere. Researchers usually produce papers describing their creations and the results of experiments carried out, but very rarely do the produce any detailed information on the hardware and programming of their machines. Sometimes this is to protect commercial interests, but most of the time I think it's just out of pure laziness. Surely scientific method dictates that you need to make clear all the details of the experiment so that it can be independently verified, and so that others can build upon earlier work. Too often in the AI world I've seen people basically reinventing the same thing again and again.

- Bob

136 posts.
Saturday 20 April, 17:18
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