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Now here looking for a perfect do-it-yourself project, putting its Magellan GPS navigation system for use other than for their integration into a robot. Robots go through a pre-defined course related to various obstacles in the way. Waypoints can be marked with objects that the robot must touch or come within a specified distance. The robots will be guided primarily by GPS and vision systems.

Waypoints can be marked with objects that the robot must touch or come within a specified distance. The robots will be guided primarily by GPS and vision systems. Robots will be fully autonomous, but not necessarily have to be autonomous, i. E. It's ok to have a portable computer with a cable or wireless link to the robot. It seems totally innovative remote control robot toy around with the! Standing | Comments | Uberbargain | Uberphones.

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Filed under: GPSWe’ve already seen GPS used to trackelderly patients, but some student researchers now look to be taking the idea one step further, with them outfitting some nursing center patients’ walkers with a GPS system that helps guide them around. While the exact technical details are a bit unclear, the system apparently uses GPS when the patients are out and about, and relies on a WiFi-based system to direct ‘em around inside the nursing center itself.

As a student project, however, it’s still quite a ways from gaining any widespread use, although it has apparently been at use at the one nursing center their testing it at for several months already. Let’s just hope folks don’t take to relying on it too much — we all know where that can lead. [Thanks, Jack] Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments.

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Filed under: GPS, Transportation We’re currently smitten with that Diesel-powered Loremo, but if we had to pick our second favorite car for the day, it’d be this here Toyota Yaris SR. Not only is it cute and sporty, but the dash rocks a fully-integrated TomTom GPS unit. When docked it not only gives you directions but provides a touchscreen interface for your car stereo, plus Bluetooth integration for hands-free phone integration, and when you’re ready to rough it on foot you can pull the TomTom.

Now for the sadderness: Toyota is only offering this car in Europe right now, so us hapless Americans are going to have to stick with by our sextants for the time being.  Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments.

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Filed under: GPS, Transportation At first glance, we seriously assumed that we had mentioned this exact same story before. Turns out, one particular Maxi Haulage driver doesn’t tune into Engadget, as he pulled the exact same trick in (almost) the same circumstances. Reportedly, this timber haul was cut short as the driver followed his personal GPS system down a “farm lane” suitable only for (presumably small) tractors, and needless to say, the 45-foot vehicle has been wedged ever since.

Additionally, the owner of the property is quite irate, as the mishap is forcing her to drive an extra two miles until rescue arrives. Still, the motorist did cruise right by a sign noting that the upcoming road was unfit for heavy goods vehicles, so at least the sat nav can’t take all of the blame this go ’round. [Thanks, Carl H. ] Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments.

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