Hi DJ,

All good ideas to me. Im for the telepresence and that yolo object detection looks interesting.

robot skills like making a walking gait ?

I like Nomad's idea!  I do have one question about EZB brand HD servos. Everytime I buy one from Robotshop Canada they send me the servo with no plastic gear to actually use it on my robot,I try hot Glue to attach,no good, Krazy glue--works for about a week then lets it go. I saw you one time using a dremmel to shape the motor shaft into a slotted gear. Before I try something extreme like that is there any place I could buy some plastic gears to fit my HD servos? DJ or Jer any suggestions?

I would like to see functional robot that does something useful.  Example a robot that changes the Keurig container in my coffee machine, puts a cup underneath and pushes the button so I have fresh coffee when my alarm goes off.  Or a robot that can play a simple card game like SNAP so you put down a card and it puts down a card and if they match says snap before you. Oh and of course the infamous get me a beer bot.

If I have to pick from list tensor flow and yolo (but I guess you could use that for the card playing bot as well or the I said I wanted a Corona not a Heineken beer bot)

Nink - i won't be building a robot, that's what i make the software for so you can build the robot. I'll demonstrate different programming techniques and solutions to problems you're attempting to solve.

@Nomad & Roborad, there's dozens of Auto Position tutorials demonstrating how to use it. I don't think that needs to be covered any further. Between The Robot Program episodes and the Auto Position manual, there's dozens of videos.

Any ideas of what programming challenges or technology integrations you'd like to see? (outside of building robots)

Right on Nink! I played the PC version of Fallout 4 and there is a robot that dispenses beer and just follows you around so you can shoot enemy and have a beer to celebrate the successful attacks.

The newer Roomba and some Chinese knock off roombas do map the house and remember where to go clean, I have seen some new plugins that may be able to do this in synthiam Arc? I think it needs to use wheel encoders to work.

The new roomba isn't very hackable and too expensive for people to use in robot projects

The old Neat-o vacuums have built-in 360 degree lidar that is quite hackable. That would be a fun hack

As for other navigation things, the IPS is something that everyone has dismissed considerable. I'll add that to the list to demo how it works.

And another navigation system i haven't spent much time with but plan on making a skill for is the intel realsense tracking camera