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…
Tagged ‘skynet’
Got Facebook privacy worries? Pah! Intrigued by Facebook Messaging? Phooey! The real thing you should be worrying about is Facebook artificial intelligence. At least that’s the conclusion you could come to listening to the theories espoused by major Facebook investor Yuri Milner. He’s got some very big ideas for the future of Facebook…
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!