IwantMORE
11-01-2005, 01:27 PM
There seems to be a lot of talk about robots at the moment, and now they are starting to get the physics behind building a machine that can move about, understand speech and interact with object.
The next step has got to be a Robot OS. From a very quick look at google it seems that the main OS of choice is, quite understandably, Linux. But Windows is getting a lookin with speech recognition.
There is a lot a robot is going to have to process with information flooding in from sensors, that need priority responses to keep the machine moving in the right direction. Language and environmental noise decoding. Speech/communication processing. Decision making AI and image processing.
This will probably be achieved by multiple processors and possibly even multiple OS's. But where a fraction of a second will need millions of decisions and processed tasks.
The next gen consoles are going to expose many programmers to their first platform with multiple processing, and more simultaneous threads of execution.
This is bound to lead to a huge jump in middleware that will make software and OS's for robots run better. It seems like most of the hardware is around that's needed to build a robot maybe with the exception of a good high powered energy storage device. But the software seems to be miles behind.
I wondered if anyone knew anything about OS research/development or discuss the problems a robot would need to be able tackle from a software side of things.
The next step has got to be a Robot OS. From a very quick look at google it seems that the main OS of choice is, quite understandably, Linux. But Windows is getting a lookin with speech recognition.
There is a lot a robot is going to have to process with information flooding in from sensors, that need priority responses to keep the machine moving in the right direction. Language and environmental noise decoding. Speech/communication processing. Decision making AI and image processing.
This will probably be achieved by multiple processors and possibly even multiple OS's. But where a fraction of a second will need millions of decisions and processed tasks.
The next gen consoles are going to expose many programmers to their first platform with multiple processing, and more simultaneous threads of execution.
This is bound to lead to a huge jump in middleware that will make software and OS's for robots run better. It seems like most of the hardware is around that's needed to build a robot maybe with the exception of a good high powered energy storage device. But the software seems to be miles behind.
I wondered if anyone knew anything about OS research/development or discuss the problems a robot would need to be able tackle from a software side of things.