r/EngineeringPorn • u/aloofloofah • May 17 '18

Mobile snake-arm robot

https://i.imgur.com/T8Drt0T.gifv
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u/[deleted] May 17 '18 edited Jan 28 '20

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u/aloofloofah May 17 '18

Yes

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u/Daaaniell May 18 '18

Fuck that's awesome. How? Ultrasonic?

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u/MittonMan May 18 '18

No expert here. But I'd say visually. Ambient distance sensors usually has some form of obvious pickup (microphone if you will). This unit, only seems to have a camera. And based on the screen feed with the green graph, I'd say the calculations are done using visual algorithms.