Building Interesting and Complex Robotics Using x86 Computers - John Hawley, Red Hat
Channel: The Linux Foundation
Date: 2013-11-16

Most hobbyist robots that are present in the market target simple tasks, from simple line following robots to the computationally simplistic battle bots (which are mostly remote controlled). With the rise in relatively inexpensive and low powered x86 machines we now have the capability to do much more computationally interesting things within the robot chassis. Specifically it means onboard complex computation can be done, giving robots much greater autonomy than using arduinos or complex microcontrollers. This greater computational capacity gives us the ability to make use of much more complex sensors, do onboard real-time image analysis as well as give the ability to use much more powerful and complex control system like wifi, zigbee and cellular modems. This talk is mainly aimed at discussing the ramifications of using low power x86 machines to act as the brains of modern robots. http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/embedded-linux-conference-europe/program/schedule