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Untethered would be an arduino running code that is all self contained on the controller doing things like controlling ping sensors, ir sensors and other sensors.

The use of the term untethered by DARPA is wrong. It has also caused a lot of confusion. The term should have been self contained i suspect.

There is nothing wrong with tethering and it is the only way that robotics will be to the point beyond simple line following robots. There has to be horsepower to make those decisions. That horsepower comes in the form of a real processor. As technology advances it will eventually get to where all of this is on a single chip and then maybe untethered will be possible for some things, but with IoT... tethering to other devices outside of a self contained robot will probably always be the case. It will be some sort of wifi, but it will still be tethered to something to get this data.

I am enjoying this conversation by the way. It is one that is misunderstood by so many people. Self Contained doesn't mean untethered.

Right. The people writing the articles don't understand and it sounds much cooler to advertise your robot as untethered. They are still tethered to a pc for the most part. The folding one is untethered, but the cheetah is tethered but self contained. It doesn't get as much attention to say self contained as it does to say untethered I guess. In any event, if the definition that someone wants to use is that the computer is onboard, that can certainly be done with this platform.

I also think that "autonomous" should have been used instead of "untethered" by DARPA. This is actually what they were after.

Hey, I see you guys had a very interesting conversation (as always with @d.cochran) during my sleep (time difference between France and US).

Though, something puzzles me @Designatures. You have build an android, like the DARPA/Boston Dynamics robot (a more than $10 million robot), but only based on arduino and it has a brain (3 different AI), a nervous system (based on sensors you made yourself), it can feel and talk... So, why there is no trace of your amazing work anywhere on the Internet (not even on your website were we can only find cool, but simple, 3D designs)? I really think it's a shame that you don't share your achievements in robotics with the robotic community. I hope you will share something with the ez-robot community now that you joined the forum...

@Designatures

Man, you might be the smartest man on this forum, but for the life of me I can't get past one paragraph of anything you write.

@Designatures

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i speak good english

I hear a lot about how good everything else is and how Ezb stuff needs to be hacked, but I haven't seen that one tutorial has been taken..... or seen anything built. I do see a lot of screen dingles... PUoSU.

@Designatures

I would be interesting in seeing some of your lesser projects. Not your upcoming industrial, military, and medical application, but some other smaller things. I'm sure you have done some and maybe I can learn something. I'm listening.