Robot Brain Cluster

Physical robots, whether they be for industrial, personal or scientific use are often limited by computational constraints imposed by a range of factors. Our goal in this project was to relax these constraints on Imperial College London's Design Engineering Natural Interaction Robot (DE NIRO) by implementing and building on top of a cluster of computers that provides the robot with opportunities to delegate processing to one of multiple machines within said cluster. This provides DE NIRO with more flexibility to perform multiple, complex skills at the same time, culminating in a demonstration of a game of Hide and Seek using advanced computer vision and speech recognition.