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01-03-2012, 07:30 PM
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MrSeb writes "Taylor Valtrop, an enterprising roboticist with a penchant for kitties, has crafted the mother of all Kinect (and Wiimote!) hacks: The teleoperation of a robot to groom a cat. Using a Nao, a $15,000 robot; a treadmill (for moving the robot forward); a head-mounted display (to see what the robot sees); Kinect (for tracking his movements); and two Wiimotes (to move the robot's hands), Valtrop is able to pat a cat with surprising accuracy and gentleness (except for where he accidentally hits the cat in the face)."http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png (http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fidle.slashdot.org%2Fstor y%2F12%2F01%2F03%2F1722236%2Fremotely-pat-your-pet-with-kinect-and-a-wiimote%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfac ebook) http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png (http://twitter.com/home?status=Remotely+Pat+Your+Pet+With+Kinect+and+ a+Wiimote%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fzervac)
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Ze_ro
01-03-2012, 08:02 PM
http://astrocadeage.com/grumpy-cat.jpg

--Zero

Gameguy
01-03-2012, 08:11 PM
Can they invent something that will hug your child so you won't have to?

joshnickerson
01-03-2012, 10:02 PM
Can they invent something that will hug your child so you won't have to?

I'm pretty sure they're already working on that.

Ryudo
01-03-2012, 10:50 PM
Why?..............

jcalder8
01-04-2012, 12:16 AM
..... that is actually really cool..... but really disturbing.

Gameguy
01-04-2012, 12:40 AM
It honestly reminds me of an old Simpsons bit from 20 years ago with the "Monroe Box".

http://www.megavideo.com/?d=WOY6V32W

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