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My Daughter's high school offers a robotics class. Wish they had that kind of thing as an elective when I was in school. :(
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Socially damaged asshole!]]>Sep 15th 2008 8:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/high-schoolers-create-face-tracking-spiderbot-tom-selleck-comes/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/high-schoolers-create-face-tracking-spiderbot-tom-selleck-comes/Sep 15th 2008 9:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/high-schoolers-create-face-tracking-spiderbot-tom-selleck-comes/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/high-schoolers-create-face-tracking-spiderbot-tom-selleck-comes/Sep 15th 2008 9:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/high-schoolers-create-face-tracking-spiderbot-tom-selleck-comes/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/high-schoolers-create-face-tracking-spiderbot-tom-selleck-comes/Sep 15th 2008 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/high-schoolers-create-face-tracking-spiderbot-tom-selleck-comes/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/high-schoolers-create-face-tracking-spiderbot-tom-selleck-comes/Sep 15th 2008 10:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/high-schoolers-create-face-tracking-spiderbot-tom-selleck-comes/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/high-schoolers-create-face-tracking-spiderbot-tom-selleck-comes/Sep 15th 2008 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/high-schoolers-create-face-tracking-spiderbot-tom-selleck-comes/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/high-schoolers-create-face-tracking-spiderbot-tom-selleck-comes/Sep 15th 2008 9:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/high-schoolers-create-face-tracking-spiderbot-tom-selleck-comes/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/high-schoolers-create-face-tracking-spiderbot-tom-selleck-comes/
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Is anyone else a little disappointed to find out that it doesn't walk and it doesn't recognise faces?

Just what *does* it do?]]>Sep 15th 2008 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/high-schoolers-create-face-tracking-spiderbot-tom-selleck-comes/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/high-schoolers-create-face-tracking-spiderbot-tom-selleck-comes/Sep 15th 2008 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/high-schoolers-create-face-tracking-spiderbot-tom-selleck-comes/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/high-schoolers-create-face-tracking-spiderbot-tom-selleck-comes/
another semester and they should have decent results.]]>Sep 15th 2008 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/high-schoolers-create-face-tracking-spiderbot-tom-selleck-comes/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/high-schoolers-create-face-tracking-spiderbot-tom-selleck-comes/Sep 15th 2008 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/high-schoolers-create-face-tracking-spiderbot-tom-selleck-comes/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/high-schoolers-create-face-tracking-spiderbot-tom-selleck-comes/
Trail - you're right, most of the parts were machined from polycarbonate on a gantry-style CNC router. however, if you look closely, the joints the servomotors mount to are machined on a lathe from aluminum, and then drilled and tapped on a mill.

and yes, it does use a proprietary face-recognition algorythm taken from a webcam. They did, however, program their own motion algorythm in C (the turning routine is finished, they hadn't completed the walking routine as of when the video was taken)

and they are high school students using high school equipment but this isn't part of a class. they designed the robot on their own time this summer.]]>Sep 15th 2008 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/high-schoolers-create-face-tracking-spiderbot-tom-selleck-comes/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/high-schoolers-create-face-tracking-spiderbot-tom-selleck-comes/Sep 16th 2008 6:15PM