One of the Podcasts I listen to is the RoboHub Podcast. In ep268 they Interviewed Audrow Nash, the show-notes give a good description:
In this episode, Audrow Nash interview Magnus Egerstedt, Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, about a way for anyone interested in swarm robotics to test their ideas on hardware, called the Robotarium. The Robotarium is a 725-square-foot lab at the the Georgia Institute of Technology that houses nearly 100 rolling and flying robots. To test their ideas, people can write their own programs, upload them to the Robotarium, and then watch the machines carry out their commands.
In this interview, Egerstedt speaks about the kinds of robots used in the Robotarium, design decisions in making the Robotarium, the differences between doing research in simulation and on hardware, and about lessons learnt and the challenges of building the Robotarium.
It turns out that Edinburg University also have a Robotarium of their own.
However that probably does not help a geek like you or I much…
A while ago I wrote a blog post about my SwarmBot idea, well this is the PodCast episode that inspired my idea to build a web connected open source free to access Robotarium.
Tamarisk has completed most of her MSc in Computer Science, and part of that is Machine Learning.
