Monday, December 23, 2013

10 hours and 44 minutes of the Darpa Robotic Challenge at Youtube

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DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials Live Broadcast

Learn more at http://www.theroboticschallenge.org/ Follow along on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/DARPA #DARPADRC.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwWm3HaDbnQ

 DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials Live Broadcast

Streamed live on Dec 20, 2013
Learn more at http://www.theroboticschallenge.org/
Follow along on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/DARPA #DARPADRC
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  • I have been watching parts of this but at times it is sort of like watching grass grow in your yard. However, if you realize just how many variables these robots are dealing with that are situations that a human life could be saved in like Nuclear accidents, fires, chemical spills etc. you can see the advantage of being able to send in robots into terrible situations rather than sending in men or women to their potential deaths in rescuing people or saving lives or whole communities from various kinds of harm. Also, it also reminds me a lot of watching videos of robotic self driving cars in the desert in the early 2000s. Now they can drive by themselves in Nevada sometimes even without any human supervision at all even at freeway speeds.
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  • So, possibly 10 years from now we are going to see these same types of robots both 2 legged and 4 legged and more running 40 mph through mazes and obstacle courses if their development moves along the same track as Google self driving cars already has. However, in order to do that they likely would need better power sources unless they are going to be run by 2 1/2 to 5 horsepower gas or diesel powered generators like many of the four legged robots you can also see on youtube.com  in order to be completely autonomous. 
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  • Another way possibly to keep them going "At least in the daytime" would be to put photvoltaic cells all over the outer surfaces of the robots to get a "Charge"whenever the sun was out on top of whatever their other battery or 2 1/2 horsepower gas or diesel generator that powered them ordinarily. Having multiple power sources to be used in different circumstances might be useful. 
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  • For example, if they used re-chargable batteries that could be plugged in by the robot or a human they could have 10 or 20 of them if they were working in a factory or a building that were constantly charging so whenever they got down to 1/4 power in one battery they could change that one for a fresh one. Also, if they were doing work in one place without walking away they could "Plug in" to a cord and work on a cord and then unplug themselves when they had to leave that area.
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