Programming Artificial Intelligence in Robots/Autonomous Robots?

(i.e. Is it a robot where a laptop or another powerful device might be an acceptable controller? Or are you looking at a small true embedded robot?

) If it's the first, MS Robotics might be right for you. It uses . Net IIRC so there's a nice low entry barrier.

If you wanna do something smaller, maybe look at Arduino, which has so much support around its platform that you'll probably find what you need. Arduino uses something very very much like C Regardless of what you choose, find a kit robot. I can't stress this enough.

You want to spend time doing AI, not getting hardware to all work correctly If you wanna try something weird and interesting, the Parallax Propeller Microcontroller is a relatively cheap arudino-weight processor with 8 cores. Might be nice for AI, where thinking generally is best done in parallel.

(i.e. Is it a robot where a laptop or another powerful device might be an acceptable controller? Or are you looking at a small true embedded robot?

) If it's the first, MS Robotics might be right for you. It uses . Net IIRC so there's a nice low entry barrier.

If you wanna do something smaller, maybe look at Arduino, which has so much support around its platform that you'll probably find what you need. Arduino uses something very very much like C++. Regardless of what you choose, find a kit robot.

I can't stress this enough. You want to spend time doing AI, not getting hardware to all work correctly. If you wanna try something weird and interesting, the Parallax Propeller Microcontroller is a relatively cheap arudino-weight processor with 8 cores.

Might be nice for AI, where thinking generally is best done in parallel.

I have been looking at the lego mindstorm robot as an entry level robot to dip my feet in the robotics water (mindstorms.lego. Com/en-us/Default. Aspx).

Is AI and Mindstorms a possible combination? – Raven Oct 19 at 4:55 That sounds like a very good idea, honestly. The NXT has lots of support and you can use many languages (see here).

– semisight Oct 21 at 19:23.

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