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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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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