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LinuxDevices: Embedded Linux Drives PatrolBot Surveillance Robot

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“Embedded Linux and a high-end Versalogic single board computer
(SBC) form the brain behind ActivMedia’s new $30K ‘PatrolBot,’
which ActivMedia calls ‘the first fully autonomous robotic
surveillance and monitoring system available off-the shelf.’
VersaLogic will demo PatrolBot at the Embedded Systems Conference
in Boston next month.

“The device runs an unspecified version of embedded Linux on a
VersaLogic VSBC-8. This Pentium III EBX-compliant single board
computer was designed for high-end embedded applications.
Additional PatrolBot features include laser, sonar, twin shaft
encoders, gyroscopic correction system, and bump sensors…”

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