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Re:Show HN: Copper – Open-Source Robotics in Rust with Deter... by gbin on Monday December 02, 2024 @09:51PM (#42302676)
It almost feels like we would need an "in between" category.

If I paint a broad brush:

- embedded is all about latency, low bandwidth

- computers are all about bandwidth with often terrible latencies.

A modern robot needs both low latency and high bandwidth.

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Re:Show HN: Copper – Open-Source Robotics in Rust with Deter... by the__alchemist on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @09:56AM (#42306743)
I suppose this lends itself to a hybrid scenario. I suspect most mature robotics projects would have both types of computation. Likely bare metal or RTOS as the default, with delegation to GPOS computer for high bandwidth, and high computation tasks such as CV.

I also imagine distributed computing (for example: over CAN or another bus) would be a useful pattern.

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