ZMP Robot Car Avoids Obstacles, Costs $7000
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Thursday, 2 of July , 2009 at 2:04 pm
ZMP’s 1/10 scale robot cars are designed so that groups who are working on DARPA Challenge style autonomous vehicles won’t have to shell out for the real thing, but can instead test their software on something a bit more affordable. The ZMP car has integrated stereo vision along with an optional image recognition module, as well as a gyro, accelerometers, IR distance sensors, and an optional laser rangefinder. The car runs on a Linux OS and can be controlled over WiFi.
The ZMP car costs $7000, and that’s just for the guts: the fancy plastic shell will set you back another six thousand (!) dollars. Hmm, if only there were some way to make something like this yourself, with the same basic functionality, only about a hundred times cheaper…
[ Press Release ] VIA [ Robot Watch (Translated) ]
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