Because I'm sure you all want to know

[Michael Wimble]

I plan to build a second robot this year (likely). Its primary purpose will be to guard the outside of my house. The mission's main goal will be to keep critters out of my garden. For the last couple of years, I’ve spent hundreds of dollars to grow tens of dollars of food. Each year, my most prized crops, like watermelon, have been utterly devastated by squirrels (mostly) and a bit by raccoons and possums. I also need other checks, probably for sprinklers left on, or sprinklers needing to be turned on, intruders, trees falling onto the property, that sort of thing.

You may know that I name each robot alphabetically. I started with Alice, I’m up to Sigyn (wife of Loki). The next robot name will be (wait for it)…

Titania.

[Thomas Messerschmidt]

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[Chris Albertson]

Squirrel chasing!  What a great use case for a small robot.     But I think the squirrels might get used to anything they know can't really catch them.  They will learn quickly that noise and lights are harmless.      But what if the robot could fly?   A noisy robot drone that can fly at 60 MPH could rightly scare just about anything out of your yard.

Or you could buy a dog

Lately I've been thinking that a home robot can be “distributed”.  This means all the parts not on the same chassis.  You can mount camera at fixed locations so the robot can see in places it is not.  It can be powered off but the camera and AI still looking out.   So thinking this way, the robot would not fly as most of it would be indoors or bolted to the house.  But the robot would have some “mobile components” that could fly, roll or walk.       The other way to think of this is “one AI controls multiple robots. 

[A J]

The Raccoon Fortress Pro might have some tech that would work with the bots.