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Intel Dwelling Into Wireless 802.11 Robots?

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Amarkarian

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I have just read a couple articles on this, most relevant here

In this article i believe they show a picture of and mention an intel all in one board with a wireless card slot. Does anyone know where i can buy that?
 
Off the top of my head, I don't know. But that would help with a project that I have had in mind for a while now (my own pet Dalek). If I find them, I will be sure to let you know.
 
here is the item in question

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As one of the industry leaders of the RETF, Intel is devising low-cost reference designs for relatively small robots. The reference designs are based on silicon for Intel's XScale microprocessor and Intel Centrino mobile technology, flash memory, and 802.11 wireless networking with built-in support for wireless sensor networks. The designs give researchers an intermediate scale between the embedded microprocessors currently used in internal robotics and the large-scale laptops used for mobile intelligence.

The robotics package also includes the open-source Linux 2.4.19 operating system, as well as a multitude of open-source drivers. Drivers include vision-system drivers for sensing infrared, drivers for ultrasonic devices that measure the distance from a robot to objects in the robot's environment, and so on. The software platform also supports Java applications, and integrates USC's Player device server for robotics systems. All elements in the open-source robotics package are wirelessly connected using 802.11 networks.

With internal robot systems standardized, researchers and developers will not have to redesign the wheel for each robot's brain. Instead, developers can spend more time on mobility, visual recognition systems, and the software for artificial intelligence (AI).
 
a lil update

"We are currently engaged with a limited number of researchers at CMU, USC, Stanford, Georgia Tech, etc. to develop a common platform based on XScale and Linux. We have deployed over 100 XScale boards to a variety of robotics researchers. The Linux port is working reasonably well with deployments to about 15 researchers."

"The boards are not yet available from a third party but we have plans to enable a third party shortly. The boards are identical to those used in our wireless sensor network gateway where we are collaborating with Crossbow, Inc. in the development of new systems (info). We are also working with Acroname on the development of robots using these XScale boards (info)."

"The Linux source code is available at Carnegie Mellon University (here) and Portland State University (here) ). We have taken the standard 2.4.19 release for ARM and applied the XScale PXA250 patches plus one for the Stayton board."

"We are also engaged in creating specifications for reusable, interoperable building blocks for mobile robots. More information is available at the Robotics Engineering Task Force website."
 
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