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Teaching My Robot with TensorFlow

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Now make it pass the butter.

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Anki Cozmo [1] looks cool. Does anyone have any other suggestion about a programmable robot with wheels and a camera, either more "bare bones" (and cheaper) or one that has some extra features, like a arm that can grab stuff?

[1]: https://www.anki.com/en-us/cozmo

Some ideas:

1. Build a DonkeyCar http://donkeycar.com -- you'll end up buying a servo controller board which you can use your pi to control any servos including those of a cheap robo arm.

2. Buy a Misty https://www.mistyrobotics.com -- more expensive but a very powerful personal robot computing platform

I've been repeatedly asked about a security robot - it'd be a killer app here in Latin America.

The Misty seems like it could patrol the interiors, not good enough yet but we're getting there.

Knightscope should start selling here: https://www.knightscope.com/

You could install a buttload of webcams for the price of one robot?

Yeah, that's the current solution (and what, for instance, my father has - cameras, infrared barriers, etc.).

But a movable webcam with some other capabilities (audio probably) might be a better deterrent.

Check out http://www.turtlebot.com, you can attach a manipulator from for example ROBOTIS to it.

It looks cool, but only available in the US again :( And they dont even allow orders to freight forwarder addresses or resellers, what is up with that?

I can see it on Amazon UK right now and it's being sold on Amazon by Anki themselves.

It's more expensive though.

Really enjoyed the subtle Aladdin references.

What if it's a drone? and it can do the same in 3 dimensions? That'd be cool

The DJI Tello is probably the closest thing available:

https://store.dji.com/product/tello https://tellopilots.com/forums/tello-development.8/

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