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Linux on non-PCs/Laptops
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It's a floor scrubbing robot. It uses LIDAR, a 3D depth camera, and a couple 2D side cameras to map and navigate its routes. It was cool for about six months and now we just default to manual driving because it's slow and gets stuck very often.
scrubbing floors with an RC car still sounds pretty cool
Man I wish it was that cool. Controlling it remotely would be primo. Unfortunately, it's not, and I work in a building that's 183,000sqft. If I have it running automatically on the other side of the building and it gets stuck, I'm suddenly burning time to run over and unstuck it.