Tokyo University engineer Tsuyoshi Horo has developed a novel system for controlling robots (or in this case, a moving stool) using a simple set of hand and body gestures. The researcher is utilizing a circular array of cameras to track and detect body movement within a controlled environment, and then translate those movements to actions for an automaton. The cameras are used to create a real-time, 3D, volumetric model of objects or people in the space, which is then converted into a psychedelic stack of virtual cubes which are read and processed as data. Viewed movement allows a user to control something like the direction of a bot simply by pointing which way they'd like it to go. Sure, that's all well and good, but we're more interested in getting ourselves Tron-ed into a highly complex Rubik's cube -- where do we sign up? Watch the videos after the break to see the system (and the blocks) in action.
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posted Feb 19th 2008 4:59PM
i'm afraid
The singularity is near...
@Andrew
Would that be a play on "Springtime for Hitler, in Germany...!" - if so *votes up*.
Sieg heil means "come towards me" now?
Fail.
Apparently he welcomes our new electronic Third Reich overlords.
yeah why did they build a robot for hitler?
I project total failure on the german market.... or mass arrest of people ordering around their personal robot...
-sings-
robots... for hitler... in tokyo
Hitler was all about control.
Appropriate.
What happens if you give it the "finger"?
It gets close to you and divides by zero.
That is very useful for controlling robots, because in the future the robots will want us constantly surrounded by cameras anyway. In this fashion, we are one step ahead of their demands, thus ensuring that they will grant us a small degree leniency when they take over the world.
That's no Robot, That is my printer...
i welcome our Dot Matrix overlords
Its "I, For one," you n00b.
(^.^)V
ha, yeah, but i felt like abbreviating so ;p
I like the design of the wheel movements, 4 wheels placed in a way where all the movements are possible without turning any wheels
Pikachu, I choose you!
Am I the only one who see's a roboticly moving chair?
It's probably controlled by a remote somewhere.
great news for elderly and handicapped people, I wonder if the robostool can "carry" you places that would be good.
They already have those, they're called wheelchairs. :P
Sweet. i've always wanted a robot that responded to disco gestures. Doing the robot to control my robot seemed like a good idea, but man is it tiring.
Which is the Robot?
The Asian man, the chair is controlling him...
Soon we'll invent a robot to control these robots, which will then gain a semblance of sentience when it uses a virus to turn your computers into a massive cluster, and it will take over your household appliances...
You will never see your socks again unless you start using clotheslines
@Andrew
Would that be a play on "Springtime for Hitler, in Germany...!" - if so *votes up*.
(sorry for the double post)
Dude's raising his hand funny.. and by funny.. I mean "oh look! We inadvertently caught him doing the Hitler Salute!"... Ok.. I'm going to go lie in a ditch now..