Thread: Fully autonomous robots?
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Re: Fully autonomous robots?
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Originally Posted by Mike
Do you think an offensively autonomous robot is feasible?
Theoretically, but not with our controller/libraries.

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Originally Posted by Mike
If not feasible, why not? What specific function could a robot do that a human could not?
  • Such an advanced object detection/avoidance is a current area of R&D (ie, DARPA's Grand Challenge)
  • I'm not sure you could do that much processing within the constraints of IFI's library (processing must be done in 26.2ms chunks, the amount of IO)
  • $$$, and the rules about it

I do foresee, though, more automation this year. Especially with "Montana", I expect many robots will attempt at autonomous aiming. (I doubt many humans trying to aim a launcher will have very good accuracy.)