"Mini Pupper" promises "outstanding" functionality, but at a price

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Hackster announced a crowd-funding campaign for the “Mini Pupper” which promises “outstanding performance” at an allegedly “low” price point of only $4k+
:exploding_head: :roll_eyes:

It supposedly supports ROS, SLAM, (wham, bam, and all the other neato stuff), too.

Of course, it is missing a camera and LIDAR, and substantial programming.

The camera and LIDAR are “options”.

Completing the software’s development is left as an exercise for the reader.

IMHO, for over $4k, those things should be included.  Along with a bottle of something good as a reward for actually finishing up the software!

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Crowd-sourced robots are crawling, rolling, driving, and strafing (Mecanum) into the “promised land”

I’m pretty sure a pet rock will give more enlightenment than any of them.

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It appears that robotics and AI are the new fashion in tech, like IOT.

Now we have “pet 'bots”.  Next, chia-'bots where the 'bot both grows the salad greens and delivers them.

After that?  Who knows?  Grand Theft Robots? :wink:

And yet the “good 'ole GoPiGo” is still going strong and (IMHO) you can’t beat it for the price.

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