Harry Veeder <[email protected]> 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. - Jed
