Martin Wojtczyk applied all the advanced robotics algorithms learned from his experience in research labs and applied them to cheap off the shelf hardware. With this he launched Cubotix, a startup company developing affordable service robots for everyone.
Rover is their first platform. It is a LEGO EV3 based self driving car that uses a 3D depth sensor and an on-board laptop for mapping and navigation. Rover can collect mapping information from its sensors and then learn how to localize itself and plan a route within the mapped space.
Rover also does gesture recognition through it’s camera and image processing. It can also do facial detection, and tell jokes.
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