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Explaining Navigation and Obstacle Avoidance

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What happens here

While the presenter continues to ride, the off-screen voice describes the robot's use of LiDAR technology to map out its surroundings and navigate specific paths. This technology allows the robot to detect individuals or objects in its way and perform a 'hard stop' to prevent collisions, which is demonstrated when someone steps in front of the moving robot.

Goal: The off-screen voice explains the robot's LiDAR-based navigation system and its ability to detect and stop for obstacles.

Tools and materials

  • RichTech Robotics Titan Robot

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sat down like 6 hours. That's what everyone keeps saying. It uses lidar around the edges to go and see, and so it'll map out around a specific path and take off. >> Dude, check it out. We're rolling. You want to race? >> [laughter] >> That's freaking awesome. Yeah, he could have modded it. 110 ft in a minute, all right? And it's not going to hit you. Like, if I roll up to you, like, it's going to detect somebody being in the way. Yeah, so if I were to go in front of you right now, right, it would hard stop.

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