Indoor GPS Robot
‘You’re heading off to vacation when, half way between home and the airport, you hear a weather report promising torrential downpours near your home. You and your spouse look at each other and wonder: Did you close the bedroom window? Not sure, you use your cell phone to connect to your home robot that not only responds to type-written commands, but knows how to navigate your home and identify your bedroom. It leaves its charging station, walks in to your room, takes a photo and wirelessly mails it back to you. Thankfully, the window is shut tight.
It’s a nifty robotics scenario that is, for now, virtually impossible with today’s commercial robots. Even Sony’s AIBO, which can receive an e-mail command to snap a photo of what it’s looking at and send it back to you, could not find a room on its own. In fact, it could even get stranded and run out of power if it’s far from its charging station, which it finds by sight alone.’
Read more at News from PC Magazine: An Indoor GPS Robot
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