Monday Kinect hack time! The Hybrid Systems Lab at UC Berkeley in the US has grafted Kinect to an autonomous flying machine to create a quadrotor robot which can navigate on its owning using Kinect as its eyes. The robot uses the open-source ROS Kinect driver to do its magic combined with a 1.6Ghz Intel Atom chip powering Ubuntu. We’re impressed but it does make us frightened about the inevitable rise of Skynet. Hit the jump to see the Kinect hack flying machine in action…
