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Dis the author publish a repo for this? It's easy getting tensorflow going for basic image classification but the hard part is actually making the robot move in a way that makes sense - using the camera and the sonar data to make decisions and then drive the motors. Or is this not autonomous?

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"I then built a simple Python webserver to spin the wheels of the robot based on keyboard commands that made for a nifty remote control car."

So, not autonomous it would seem. With that and an arm, though, you could eventually get it to play fetch...

I made an autonomous mode using the sonar sensors and a driving mode. I also made a public repo, but I didn't want to link to it, since the code is so awful (it was just a fun hobby project and I wasn't expecting people to look at it).

If you promise not to judge me, you can use anything at your own risk here: https://github.com/lukas/robot

Ah, right. You could do this project with a cheap RC car and a phone running TF stuck on it

The mention of sonar sensors, used to prevent the car from running into obstacles, made me think the author was planning to make the robots autonomous too, but maybe just hasn't gotten that part worked out yet. I was also curious how the robot would know when to stop and try classifying something, without the operator explicitly telling it so.

Since when did TF started to run on stock phones?

A few months ago.

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/tree/master/tensorf...

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