Hacker Preparing Kinect-Controlled Robot Army

Tom Goldman

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Hacker Preparing Kinect-Controlled Robot Army


Kinect can be used to play rafting games, or to force a robot to act out a human vendetta. Your choice.

Reading and transferring human skeletal movement is the bread-and-butter of before [http://www.amazon.com/Kinect-Sensor-Adventures-Xbox-360/dp/B002BSA298/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1295192999&sr=8-1], but never has it looked so threatening.

YouTube's Ikaziso is able to control a V-Sido [http://vsido.uijin.com/en/index.html] robot using his own movements through Kinect. The hack evidently translates these movements into V-Sido's software which otherwise controls the robot through a computer by using a mouse .

With Kinect though, Ikaziso demonstrates how easy it could be to convince someone that this robot is alive. A plethora of movements can be performed by the V-Sido, and it can even stand on one foot and carry foreign objects.

With a bigger robot, a camera, and voice box, this hack is the perfect method of doing errands without ever leaving the house. Unlike the Kinect hack that gives people jiggly boobs [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/106672-Kinect-Hack-Slaps-Worlds-Most-Jiggly-Boobs-on-Anyone], Ikaziso's actually seems like it could be useful. Nobody would ever use something like this for evil, right?

Source: Techabob [http://technabob.com/blog/2011/01/15/kinect-controls-humanoid-robot/]

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SomeLameStuff

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I would like to purchase 500 of these for a world domination personal project. Address them to my Volcano Island Doom Fortress apartment.

On a totally unrelated note, I'd also like to purchase 1000 laser guns. For a totally separate project of course.
 

Soods

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Looks awesome, but sadly I could only focus on the screeching sound the robot makes.
 

Samwise137

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Someone posted on ChiefDelphi (the FIRST Robotics Competition forums) asking if anyone had the Kinect drivers so they could drive their robot with it. Perhaps this is a step in the "right" direction for them...
 

Big Phil

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Am I the only one who thinks that new-gen robot-battle tournaments are not so far away now?
 

Evilsanta

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SomeLameStuff said:
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I would like to purchase 500 of these for a world domination personal project. Address them to my Volcano Island Doom Fortress apartment.

On a totally unrelated note, I'd also like to purchase 1000 laser guns. For a totally separate project of course.

Yeah... Me too.

Evil you say? Noooo...How can you say that? I am a paragon of good and...Screw it!

Bow down before your new world leader! MOHAHAHA!
 

Nikolaz72

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Evilsanta said:
SomeLameStuff said:
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I would like to purchase 500 of these for a world domination personal project. Address them to my Volcano Island Doom Fortress apartment.

On a totally unrelated note, I'd also like to purchase 1000 laser guns. For a totally separate project of course.

Yeah... Me too.

Evil you say? Noooo...How can you say that? I am a paragon of good and...Screw it!

Bow down before your new world leader! MOHAHAHA!
I think some issues might arise when a lot of people get the same idea and all meet up with robot armies of slightly differently painted colours on the same volcanic island.
 

Discord

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Big Phil said:
Am I the only one who thinks that new-gen robot-battle tournaments are not so far away now?
This...

Also I love the amount of hacks and mods people are createing with the Kinect. It speaks wonders to what people can do with alittle time and knowledge.

I found it funny he used a Mobile Suit from Gundam...

Maybe one day what he did with Kinect Plus this...

 

Delusibeta

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It's interesting how (presumably) bedroom coders for the PC seem to be making stuff for Kinect that's more awesome than professional teams (or Microsoft themselves).