Yes, you read correctly — rubber duckies.
If you’re looking for a class to take at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, you can consider “Duckietown,” a new hands-on class about the science of autonomy that focuses on self-driving vehicles and high-level autonomy, geared toward makers and thinkers.
Duckietown is an open-source class, so all materials, such as hardware design, software, and teaching materials, will be released as free software license for code.
The course revolves around technology concepts like perception, object detection, and tracking, where students develop algorithms to read traffic signs and notice pedestrian-ducks, as well as integrate different disciplines like control theory, machine learning, and computer vision into their systems.
The class’ goal was to create 50 self-driving taxis, all with duck passengers, capable of navigating the roads of a model city with just a single on-board camera and no pre-programmed maps.
Duckietown’s leaders hope to work with roboticists around the world to incorporate their open-source teaching materials and “Duckiebot” design, which cost about $100 to make, into other schools’ programs.
Story via MIT.
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