This Kinect hack may well be the best yet: the Personal Robots Group at MIT have taken a battery-powered Kinect and grafted it on to an iRobot Create (the hackable platform from the makers of Roomba and PackRobot). The Kinect helps create a 3D map to help the robot navigate. They’re also planning on giving the Kinect iRobot the ability to identify humans using Kinect smarts. See after the break for the Kinect iRobot in action and more good Kinect robot news…
Tagged ‘Robot’
Not all robots are as cute and lovable as Johnny Number 5. They’re often as cold and mechanical as the parts they were built from. That has now changed with the Emotional Humanoid Robot that’s just been unveiled in Japan capable of a full range of human emotions.
Talk about your all-time gimmicks. A rolling MP3 player with built-in speaker that ‘dances’ on your desk to the music? Sony, we thought better of you!
The Solar Robot Kit is LEGO Mindstorms for the next generation: instead of relying on carbon belching non-renewable energy, it’s a robot kit powered entirely by the sun!
The Sony PS3 could get an add-on game-playing robot, if a recently-unearthed patent application is to be believed. The patent application, from Sony Computer Entertainment, was filed last June, for a wheeled robot with a camera, microphone that reacts to a gamer’s voice and speaker, plus other sensors.
Terminator Skynet robots are popping up in the post for any film fans that request them. It’s the best bit of viral marketing since the FEAR 2 cats!