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Robottle: Autonomous Robot Design

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This lecture presents the design process of Robottle, an autonomous robot created by three engineering students from EPFL for a competition. The robot is built with laser cut wood, uses ROS for software development, and features mechanisms for bottle collection and obstacle avoidance.

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Artificial neural network

Artificial neural networks (ANNs, also shortened to neural networks (NNs) or neural nets) are a branch of machine learning models that are built using principles of neuronal organization discovered by connectionism in the biological neural networks constituting animal brains. An ANN is based on a collection of connected units or nodes called artificial neurons, which loosely model the neurons in a biological brain. Each connection, like the synapses in a biological brain, can transmit a signal to other neurons.

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