Kinect Could Someday Save Your Life
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Why am I all of a sudden reminded of this?
OT: This is a really cool invention. We should send the robot to Christchurch if only to round up the missing people there with this thing. Hopefully in the future this will be a more widespread solution.
kinect is waaay too multifunctional... It's dangerous. and scary... microsoft what have you done? Still, it's pretty neat that it can do all this.
Long live the robotic overlords(!?)
Long live the robotic overlords(!?)
The rest of it all looks fine but that kinect right there in the middle looks pretty fragile to be sending into a crisis. One small rock fall and bang goes your robot's functionality unless I'm missing something? It doesn't look too fire, water or radiation proof either.
Awesome stuff at first glance, but - I do have to bud in.
While this does potentially save lives of rescuers, it doesn't necessarily do the same for the people waiting to be rescued. Adding the time that the robot will go in (because after it finds the victims, humans still need to actually get there) might also be adding the time someone under that rubble doesn't have.
Not to mention, while I'm sure the software in this little guy is fantastic, I don't really see a robot having as easy a time navigating and moving through rubble, thus leading to even more time for a robot to find a survivor than a human would (not to mention the possibility for it to get stuck). Maybe it's just my imagination, but I don't think collapsed buildings tend to have a constant flat surface for a robot to move through. What if something requires it to climb/jump over something? Or worse even, move something out of the way?
Perhaps I'm underestimating the robot's hardware, dunno. Wouldn't it be more useful if the rescue crews were given thermal imaging equipment or something similar to help them simply locate the victims visually rather than physically?
While this does potentially save lives of rescuers, it doesn't necessarily do the same for the people waiting to be rescued. Adding the time that the robot will go in (because after it finds the victims, humans still need to actually get there) might also be adding the time someone under that rubble doesn't have.
Not to mention, while I'm sure the software in this little guy is fantastic, I don't really see a robot having as easy a time navigating and moving through rubble, thus leading to even more time for a robot to find a survivor than a human would (not to mention the possibility for it to get stuck). Maybe it's just my imagination, but I don't think collapsed buildings tend to have a constant flat surface for a robot to move through. What if something requires it to climb/jump over something? Or worse even, move something out of the way?
Perhaps I'm underestimating the robot's hardware, dunno. Wouldn't it be more useful if the rescue crews were given thermal imaging equipment or something similar to help them simply locate the victims visually rather than physically?
Great so my Kinect can do a bevvy of wonderful stuff, none of which involve gaming. Then again the game devs must be keeping hush hush about what they are doing, because the kinect has been proven to be awesome tech so the games will follow.
1st party devs better get to work making this thing do awesome stuff in new games.
1st party devs better get to work making this thing do awesome stuff in new games.
So at what point does the robot come to life and start imitating old movies? I assume when it makes a rescue it does it in sort of a celebratory fashion?
Even if it didn't get held up at the British end, you can bet they'd stop it to check its treads for foreign biomaterial when it arrived here in NZ ;-)skorpion352 said:
*positive thoughts to CHCH*
Hey! Using video game technology to save lives! Now that's progress 
Now I want some video games that teach me things, useful things.
Now I want some video games that teach me things, useful things.
