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88 D‐Ov2Evo Caveats ‐ READ THIS
- Catch the head when you switch the droid off. The servo gearboxes are not strong enough to catch it themselves.
- NEVER plug/unplug the neck or any neck components while the droid is switched on / has power. I have fried multiple MKR1010s doing this until I realized.
A droid is a robot, and more often than not it is one that is running in the middle of crowds of people, so it consitutes a hazard. Without diving into in-depth methods like Automotive Safety Integrity levels, we can try for a very simple ontology: A droid should not run into things or people (including running off ledges or cliffs), it should not electrocute things or people, and it should not set things or people on fire.
Under remote control, we assume that the droid operator is benevolent and able to control the droid. While there have been previous attempts to build a droid that you can't crash into things (using ultrasound sensors), we do not consider them here. So failure mode is reduced to the remote control not working well, or the droid not diagnosing that correctly. Please see the section on Remote Control for that.
This is currently sci fi.