Nissan car with bumble-bee eyes

Nissan car with bumble-bee eyes

Postby Johnny 5 on 07 Oct 2008, 13:43

Nissan has unveiled a car which it says has "bumble bee eyes":

http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/29/niss ... robot-car/
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Re: Nissan car with bumble-bee eyes

Postby Johnny 5 on 07 Oct 2008, 13:46

JFR wrote:Interesting but I don't see how they can relate a laser range finder to a bees compound eye??? Sounds like a bit of hype to me.


Indeed ... press release does not really give specifics either. On second though, sounds like hype to me as well.
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Re: Nissan car with bumble-bee eyes

Postby alee on 08 Oct 2008, 18:54

I like that they point out that you can 'avoid by decelerating/rotating'. And there I was thinking I should speed up and ram obstacles!
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Re: Nissan car with bumble-bee eyes

Postby nano on 09 Oct 2008, 16:22

alee wrote:I like that they point out that you can 'avoid by decelerating/rotating'. And there I was thinking I should speed up and ram obstacles!


Hihi, I love it when people point out the obvious, must have been near a cat.

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