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Google'S Project Tango Superior Indoor Micro Navigation

Hi,

Just did a search through the forum and didn't see anyone using this here yet.

This is the smartest sensor I've seen so far.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k43xJs3Roqg

https://plus.google.com/u/0/110913548697960843112 Here's one person's use that's quite similar to my desires:

" I use the Tango for full autonomous behaviors around my house. I can start the robot in any room in my house and tell it with speech recognition to go to any other location in my house and it can safely travel to that location. I can sit on the couch, take off my shoes, and say "take them to the closet" and it will take my shoes to the closet......once it gets there it can't do anything with the shoes since I haven't given it arms yet........but the arms are very close to being added into the design.
My favorite trick so far is telling it to go wake up my kids in the morning......the robot travels to the bedrooms and starts and alarm until they get up and use the touch screen face to turn off the alarm.

I have been creating the developer SDK for all aspects of the robot in Java, but a Unity SDK will be coming soon. "

So far there are only about 3,000 of these sold and only 5 of us using them for robotics. I'll create a tutorial once I get it interfaced with the EZ-B v4 via the USB and can turn on an LED.

Best,

Bill


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Lenovo just announced that they will be making the first Project Tango phone, available unlocked at BestBuy for $499 in September (even without a carrier, this might be a better Robot solution than a tablet due to the size, although it is going to be a big phone - 6.4" display). Having the 4G and ability to create a hotspot might actually be really useful in a robot.

http://www.droid-life.com/2016/06/09/lenovo-phab2-pro-project-tango/

Alan