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01-04-2012, 07:40 AM
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Eventually the robots will rise up and destroy us all, this much we can all agree on. Until then, software engineer Taylor Veltrop is fine with using our future usurpers as feline babysitters.
Veltrop has hacked (http://www.joystiq.com/tag/hack) together a Kinect, two Wiimotes, head-mounted display, treadmill and a Nao robot (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2STTNYNF4lk) to remotely pet a cat. It may have taken him about a year to get this far, but in the end, it's worth it: we get a video showing an amount of human-robot relations not seen since Sarah and her son befriended a T-800 and Veltrop gets to pet a cat. Win-win situation, if you ask us.http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif (http://www.joystiq.com)Engineer makes cat companion out of robot using Kinect and Wiimotes (http://www.joystiq.com/2012/01/04/engineer-makes-cat-companion-out-of-robot-using-kinect-and-wiimo/) originally appeared on Joystiq (http://www.joystiq.com) on Wed, 04 Jan 2012 07:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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Eventually the robots will rise up and destroy us all, this much we can all agree on. Until then, software engineer Taylor Veltrop is fine with using our future usurpers as feline babysitters.
Veltrop has hacked (http://www.joystiq.com/tag/hack) together a Kinect, two Wiimotes, head-mounted display, treadmill and a Nao robot (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2STTNYNF4lk) to remotely pet a cat. It may have taken him about a year to get this far, but in the end, it's worth it: we get a video showing an amount of human-robot relations not seen since Sarah and her son befriended a T-800 and Veltrop gets to pet a cat. Win-win situation, if you ask us.http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif (http://www.joystiq.com)Engineer makes cat companion out of robot using Kinect and Wiimotes (http://www.joystiq.com/2012/01/04/engineer-makes-cat-companion-out-of-robot-using-kinect-and-wiimo/) originally appeared on Joystiq (http://www.joystiq.com) on Wed, 04 Jan 2012 07:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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