Remotely Pat Your Pet With Kinect and a Wiimote [Slashdot]

[DP ServBot]

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)."
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[Ze_ro]

--Zero

[Gameguy]

Can they invent something that will hug your child so you won't have to?

[joshnickerson]

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]

Why?..............

[jcalder8]

..... that is actually really cool..... but really disturbing.

[Gameguy]

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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