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darksaints on June 1, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon crowns winner of first warehouse robot chal...

It comes down to path planning degrees of freedom and dimensionality. Cars have two degrees of freedom and two dimensions, where most of these robots use 6 degrees of freedom in 3 dimensions.

ck2 on June 1, 2015 [–]

Could it be accelerated with massive amounts of computing power?

Is the limitation here sensor speed or computing speed?

Certainly not motor speed, I see once the robot determines what to do, it immediately moves much more quickly.

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