iRobot Visualizing Something Weird

Writing by Evan Ackerman on Wednesday, 21 of January , 2009 at 2:52 am

This video, from iRobot’s YouTube channel, is entitled “Inching Tube Test: Will it Break Out?” According to the caption, it’s a software model of some kind of “complex robot” that was being tested in a virtual environment. Anyone have any guesses as to what iRobot may have been (or is) working on here?

[ iRobot @ YouTube ]

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Category: Research

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Comment by Arne

Made Wednesday, 21 of January , 2009 at 9:19 am

Maybe just raising knowledge and expertise in evolutionary robotics? Weird though.

Comment by ironman

Made Wednesday, 21 of January , 2009 at 2:09 pm

for crawling through tight spaces to pull wires for electricians.

that’s my guess.

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