Kinect Used to Make Flying AI Robot of death!

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Just when you thought you had seen the best possible Kinect hack, something like this comes along to lengthen your search. The people over at UC Berkeley's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences have created an unmanned aerial vehicle that can navigate through environments and avoid obstacles using Microsoft's motion sensing device. For a video click readmore
The creators of this robot attached a Kinect sensor on top, which, in their words "delivers a point cloud to the on-board computer. Consensus algorithm fits a planar model to the points on the floor, and this planar model is fed into the controller as the sensed altitude."

Didn't understand that? Either did we! But thanks to common sense, we've been able to figure out that the Kinect sensor attached to the robot allows it to create a map of its surroundings, allowing it to move around intelligently & avoid obstacles. for a video click readmore



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luxurious-ModzPosted:

This is the start of advanced robots that talk, fly, drive, kill, and all kinds of other s*** in the future. Like on the movies.

SecretsPosted:

TRICKNN I guess this is the outcome of a person that gets bored of the Kinect. :P


Or they just hate M$.

Noah-Posted:

that is really cool wonder if i could make one

TRICKNNPosted:

I guess this is the outcome of a person that gets bored of the Kinect. :P

Nico16Posted:

the only thing thats original about this is the flying aspect my high school technology class has one that has wheels and does the same thing except it doesnt stop it goes around the object

DownloadPosted:

WOW! That's awesome, I am currently building a robot with my peers and we checked this out, that is really amazing!

vegasgamerPosted:

pretty orginal thinking, go GEEKS!!

TigelPosted:

Wow Thats Amazing!
Its crazy what some people can do.

HenderPosted:

What a Cool RC helicopter with a Webcam attached =)

Aznboy38Posted:

Haha lol wtf is this a flying kinect