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After Ro-Bot-X's little chumby suffered a massive overdose of voltage, he's back up and running with MRL (headless)

Here he's boadcasting a very slow camera stream to my house (2500 miles away)

Yay !  Back from the dead !

It's not super stable video feed, but I have some ideas on that.. also we could try some different camera's too... 

Yeah, it doesn't look like much... but I'm excited.  I've been meaning to do this a while, just didn't have the time.  I'll be doing a variety of tests to see how it preforms.  It has several "Match" algorithms to play with (CV_TM_CCOEFF_NORMED, CV_TM_SQDIFF, etc) - and I think there are several normalization routines.

This match algorithm seems fairly fast @ 120 ms - Haar Face Detection takes longer...

Found a inexpensive kinect sensor on craigslist today..  Built the openkinect libraries..  fired up glview - boom ... Hey .. whataya know ... it works !    Next?  Integration with MRL, SLAM & MAAHR

Ro-Bot-X and I are working together even though we are 2500 miles away !

Hey Look... I can see Ro-Bot-X's living room through the eye of the bot he's currently working on ! (Hopefully he won't mind me posting it :) )

OBJECTIVE

Hi,

This is a blog post for PM and anyone else interested.  I have been doing many updates to mrl, and have begun working on some tutorial videos.  Patrick Mccabe and I spoke a couple times regarding hooking up his great chess robot to mrl for a game engine.  

For those DIY'ers who want to take Lassie and turn her into a Cyborg, apparently there is an old Russian "How To"

It appears to be an amalgam of Vladimir Petrovich Demikhov disturbing work in the 1950's and some clever CG artist.

Full article in Russian here.

I have been thinking for a long time about how to harness the power of the internet into programming robots.  I can imagine a robot here which I give some form of task.  Let's say (and this would be relevant) finding a wall socket and plugging itself in.  The task of successfully identifying a wall socket, moving the robot to a correct location, and inserting some sort of plug would seem monumental.