Meet Loki, a DIY robot apparently inspired by the Norse God. Like many of his kind, Loki uses a laptop as a brain and sports a display screen on its chest.

Loki builds upon the software of Seeker and Mr. Roboto, including remote control and diagnostics over WiFi, but adds more capable vision processing, speech recognition, indoor pathfinding (Using A*), basic Artificial Intelligence, and general refinement of the architecture. His latest addition is an arm, so he can start manipulating things in his environment.

The body was made from scratch and is mostly aluminum, while the Cameras are two Logitech Notebook Pro webcams for stereo vision.

Sure, he looks like an updated “No. 5″. But this guy is much cooler and far more useful.

[dshinsel]

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One Response to “Loki Homemade DIY Robot”

1. There’s A Reason Why The Japanese Build Better Robots | botropolis.com Says:
   February 8th, 2010 at 11:09 pm

   [...] But then comes along their computer generated robot, which looks similar to the homemade robot (Loki), and the poor robot over hears their conversation. Watch the rest of the video [...]

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