savioke robot specs / implementations
i just read an article about savioke ( http://www.savioke.com/ ). it looks like one great robot built on ros!
does anyone know how savioke touch screen is implemented?
i asked a similar question yesterday on this forum about how to build a touch interface for the robot (on the robot like savioke), and the only answer so far was to use a tablet (thanks!).
i can see that it could work, but the tablet solution seems to have 2 issues.
you have to build the touch interface in a different language / framework (i.e. android sdk or ios sdk), and then build the actual logic for the robot in ros. it's possible but it doesn't seem like an optimal solution to spread development efforts in two different places.
the tablet likely has its own hardware (i.e. its own board, ram, etc), while the robot also has its own hardware (i.e. board, ram, etc). it doesn't seem like an optimal way to build out the robot this way, as we'll waste the hardware parts on the tablet, in which we only need the touch screen. in other words, we'll pay for the hardware of the tablet but we don't really use them except for the screen.
what would be the best way to build a touch screen robot?
any feedback, comment, advice is much appreciated.
thanks!
I think anyone who knows how it works is probably covered under an NDA, and isn't allowed to talk about it.
i understand that it may be under NDA. i was just wondering what everyone thinks about a possible good solution for doing a touch screen interface with ROS. savioke seems to do a great job at that.