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Today Sebastian Thrun, the head of the Stanford AI Lab, spoke on the probabilistic (R)evolution in robotics, and he showed several of his robots, culminating with the big one, Stanley, pictured above..
This is Stanford’s autonomous robotic vehicle that will compete in the DARPA Grand Challenge in October, racing across the desert at 30mph without any human intervention.
The roof is festooned with laser range finders and other sensors:
“The vehicle incorporates measurements from GPS, a 6DOF inertial measurement unit, and wheel speed for pose estimation. While moving, the environment is perceived through four laser range finders, a radar system, a stereo camera pair, and a monocular vision system.”
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