Thu, Nov 18, 2010 | 09:27 GMT
People make room-scanning Kinect robot, order it around with gestures
Jesus. We were joking when we said, “Go make some robots.” Why do you have to be so literal?
Short version: some MIT people took Kinect, strapped it to an iRobot Create along with a range-finding sensor, a netbook board and some other crap, and let it wander around rooms scanning everything in 3D. It’s pretty mental.
And that’s not all. Later on in the video below, one of the team behind K-Bot directs it around by pointing, in the same way you’d play a Kinect game.
Games are for wimps, though. Why “play” when you can be in Minority Report, connect the “boardroom and the living room,” capture 3D media and make robot dogs?
Super-Kinect. Watch and see. Thanks, Engadget.
11 comments
#1
Mike
18/11/10, 10:20 am
That is fucking mental. It was like peering through the looking glass into a future world that was much like our own.
#2
Psychotext
18/11/10, 10:24 am
It’ll all end in tears… and robots crushing skulls.
#3
Johnny Cullen
18/11/10, 10:35 am
The beginning of the end has begun.
#4
Blerk
18/11/10, 10:44 am
I for one welcome our new robot overlords.
#5
Psychotext
18/11/10, 10:46 am
They will wear you like a meaty cloak Blerk.
#6
Blerk
18/11/10, 11:15 am
Kinky!
#7
Psychotext
18/11/10, 11:16 am
#8
Johnny Cullen
18/11/10, 11:18 am
Hahaha!
#9
JonFE
18/11/10, 11:58 am
Psycho, just imagine this combined with those night goggles of yours. It could take night stalking to a whole new level; ooh, the possibilities…
#10
Johnny Cullen
18/11/10, 12:01 pm
#11
Psychotext
18/11/10, 12:02 pm
Shiny.