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Omni-Shoe-Bot #1

Here’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.

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