We know how you feel. Sure,
telerobotics has changed your life for the better, allowing to interact with people
as if you're really there, coasting through the halls of an institution of higher learning, dropping knowledge on anyone within shouting distance. But something's missing. You aren't
happy, you aren't
free. MeBot, developed at
MIT's Personal Robotics Group and prepped for presentation at the Human-Robot Interaction conference in Osaka, Japan, looks to solve this. It adds movement to the equation, hoisting an
OQO aloft for a head and adding in gesticulating arms to the equation. The idea is to allow the teleoperator to be more engaged through "head" and "arm" movements, with the arms being moved by handheld controls, and the head movement created by tracking the face of the operator. We could obviously conceive of a more elaborate representation, but the off the shelf components like the OQO brain seem worthy of commendation. Check out some video of the bot in action after the break.
posted March 1st 2010 5:33PM
I for one welcome, our human-controlled robot overlords!
@Bowsa Where do I insert the vial of Nuke?
http://unrealitymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/nuke.jpg
One for you,
and one you.
(hands out good quip stickers)
@Bowsa, they are already here. We call them politicians.
So it's Metal Gear Mk II from MGS4? Bring it on!
Didn't I see Steve Urkel make one of these in Family Matters?
I don't hear any sound.
you'd thought they would find a more attractive individual to promo this, but oh no - it's gotta be an XX with a stare from hell..
Interesting, so now instead of that girl on the screen walking into a crowded marketplace herself and blowing herself to kingdom come, she just drives that little dude in with a payload of C4.
SOMEBODY's been watching the hurt locker, and now lil' saraya be fightin fire with fire.
I think my speakers are broke >.
Thank god its not another twitterbot...
Ugh, reminds me of that cyborg from Robocop who commited suicide.
It needs to display the face of Johnny5.
No sound. What the heck?
When was telerobotics ever NOT fun?
It's Holly!