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Welcome!This is not really an idea, but a welcome! The takemetoyourrobot site is officially released today, all thanks to David Holstius of the CREATE lab. We hope you enjoy the site. Please sign up, and consider posting an idea or two as well as a project, if you have something you'd love to share. Robot to Exercise Your DogThe Robots Feed Your Dog idea is similar in nature to an idea we want for our dog. Instead of just giving her food, it would make her exercise during the day so that she won't be so hyper when we come home. Dodgeball + Robots = Fun!Swiveling robot cannons fire dodgeballs at a human line-up against the wall. Sensors track human movement, and the individual cannons ‘think’ and work together for strategy, firing wider when there are more people, and concentrating their fire when their are fewer oppontents. Robots Feed Your DogA sound sensor is connected to a servo/gate. When the dog barks, the gate rises, releasing a round dog treat. To prevent a Fat Fido, the robot counts the treats, so that every 3rd treat, a bell rings, and the robot refuses to serve any more for 2 hours. (The dog learns the bell means treat time is over for a while.) Explore the TitanicAn 8-passenger ride simulator is tied in with a large aquarium tank that holds a 6-foot model of the wreck of the Titanic. Eight visitors ride in the simulator, while one visitor pilots a robotic video submersible in the tank, over/around the wreck. The simulator is keyed in real time to the movements of the mini-sub, so the riders see what the sub sees and move as the sub moves, so it looks like they are exploring the real Titanic. Dampers in the software prevent the sub ‘pilot’ from making wild, radical moves, jerking the riders around too much. El Paso RetrevoWhen my daughter was born, my wife and I were staunchly anti-pacifier. Oh, how naive we were. We caved within a couple weeks. Before long, however, we discovered that babies often spit out the pacifier when sleeping. And when they wake up and can't find it again, they get mad. And when babies are mad, they cry. And when you're sleeping and they cry, you're no longer sleeping. And then you want to cry. Virtual OceanOK, so probably not a ‘robot’ idea - more a VR interactive from my time in New Zealand. The idea is a large, round room, with rear-projection creating an immersive undersea environment. The ‘ocean’ contains the variety of LIFE SIZE aquatic life found in the waters surrounding NZ. In its default mode, it’s a giant screen-saver, with pods of whales and schools of fish, etc. swimming in and out of view and interacting naturally with each other. But as visitors appproach the screens, sensors track their position, and the sea-life reacts to it - schools of fish scatter if you approach too fast, or curious dolphins follow your child around the room. Etc. ButtBot: Telepresence GameSo I was walking around campus and we had just been working with kids downtown at the Mission Discovery program … I was noticing all of these cigarette butts on the ground and thought, “Hey! This is a great opportunity for an anti-littering bot. People love to play that cheesy pick-up-claw game at the arcade, maybe they would want to clean up their neighborhood at the same time!” Inside-Out HouseOkay, this is an art installation I want someone to do with me. Ideally for the Walker, outdoors, in Minneapolis. So if you live in Minneapolis let me know. The structure is a cave (4 walled structure) with projectors projecting images on every inside and outside surface. The inside surfaces have videos projected on them of what you would see if the wall wasn't there, of the outside world. The outside surfaces have videos projected on them of what you would see if the wall wasn't there and you could see “through” the cube. Now you might think this is precisely the same as making a glass structure that is inherently see through (no projection). It’s not. Think about it carefully. Enjoy. Omni-Shoe-Bot #1Here’s the idea. We all love walking barefoot. Now you can, without ever touching the floor! This is a pair of omni-wheel-based robot platforms, with CMUcam3’s embedded, looking up. You wear special socks with fiducial marks on the bottom. Or better yet, you get a brightly colored tatoo on the sole of your foot (which hurts a tad). The CMUcam3’s do vision processing, control the motors, and it servoes to stay under your feet as you walk. You probably want different colored fiducials on each sole of each foot so you don't have them competing to go under the same foot. The bots have to get out of each others’ way and stay under foot in spite of obstacles on the ground. Anyone game to work on this with me? I'm serious folks. It’s a real interactive art piece for a museum somewhere. Sometime. Ideas ideaSo this is a meta-idea, not just an idea. Sorry. But: how about if all of y'all post 2 ideas of robot projects you have always wanted to do but have never gotten around to doing? I want to pick your brains. And I promise hereby to post 2 myself today! Wow. |
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