A large WiFi Aluminum Tank-Style robot platform with the capability of deploying a temporary WiFi network to intended for support of scientific research, rescue response, and front line operations. WiFi is nearly universal at this point, thus nearly anyone, provided they have authorization access the network. Node.JS is used because it is an event – driven programming language, and robots are well described by even based systems. Typically JavaScript is not used in robotics applications because it is slow. However, by doing distributed computing on-board and minimizing the computation done by the Node.JS web-server, this makes for a low latency, reliable robot platform that can be controlled from any web enabled device. This robot, with repeaters deployed can operate at a tested range of nearly 2km. Repeaters can be dropped in strategic places to allow wireless communication through tunnel systems, and other archetypical difficult wireless communication terrains. Because this was done at Artisan’s Asylum, the “One-Off Prototype” cost of this platform is roughly $2500. This is several orders of magnitudes lower than that of major robotics companies, for a robotic platform that shows that it is just as capable.
