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Posted by dan michaels on September 28, 2007, 3:59 pm
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> > pogo wrote:
> > > Pretty cool hexapod face tracking video. Very slick!
> > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oXuSXCKJeY
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> > Now /that/ is how robots should behave - that is true fluid biological
> > immitation - im more than impressed. If it walked id be more amazed, but
> > it is the most impressive hex that ive seen i think.
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> Sheesh, between that and <http://beatbots.blip.tv/>, I'm really starting
> to feel like my robots are lame because they don't track faces.
>
If you got a CMUcam or AVRcam or similar device, you could probably
get your bot acting very similar to this right now, cueing in on a
colored ball rather than a face. Get it to track back and forth, and
then jump backwards when the size of the object increases quickly,
etc.
> I know that OpenCV has face-tracking stuff... I just need to figure out
> how to cram some hardware that can run OpenCV into something
> robot-sized. (Or, use an external computer, which is probably what the
> hexapod is doing.)
>
> Any thoughts on the smallest/cheapest computer board that could run
> OpenCV?
>
> Best,
> - Joe
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oXuSXCKJeY
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> Enjoy !
> JCD
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