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Wii Hacked To Control Sword-Wielding Robot
ianchaos writes "WiiBot is the pet project of two engineers who apparently have way too much cool hardware and time on their hands. These two guys figure that as long as you have a Kuka KR16 industrial robot to work with, why not see if you can control it with the Wii Remote? The result is a tennis-playing, sword-wielding mechanical arm that simultaneously captures 'weekend of nerdy fun' and 'accident waiting to happen' in a fun two minute video. The website even details the technical aspects of teaching a robot to parry."
I for one welcome our wii-capable overlords. ...first post ever, gimme a break right?
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Its all fun and games until they become possessed by the angry ghost of R.O.B.
Loved the discussion of how the bot can easily decapitate.
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The robot arm, in the server room, with the sword.
With a somewhat lower latency, perhaps. Swinging, waiting a second, and then hearing your victim say "AH! You got me!" just isn't very cool.
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Hey, if they had money, the robot wouldn't have been orange, it would have been hummer yellow.
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The problem here is not too much cool hardware. That's never a problem. The problem is not enough sharing.
After a fun day of playing "Swordsman" with the robot they accidentally hand it the Wii remote... The police find their decapitated bodies two days later and a cold oil trail leading out of the building. In the distance a faint voice is heard, "Hello. My designation is Inigo Montoya. You reprogrammed my previous model; prepare to die."
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
you're right - let's slashdot the heck out of it so the military can't get to the website, 'cause as soon as some goofball in the military gets an idea about using "robots" as killing machines- whoa!
Fortunately, this hasn't occurred to anyone but you.... yet.
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With a long enough lag and some planning, it could make it look like the bot did it all on it's own >_>... hmm
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Soon, we can pornsurf with *both* hands.
...if you give the remote to the robot?
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I couldn't think of anything more fun to have.
And no, I couldn't give a shit what my karma is.
My name is Inigo Roboto. You degaussed my father. Prepare to die.
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
Just trick your victim to sleep next to the robot.
Now is the tricky part (not getting caught). Turn off the power. Put a Wii-remote along with the sword on your primary robot and set it up in the default position. Next put a second robot with a Wii-remote that controls the first but have it set up so that the arm is pointed up. Set it up so that the primary Wii on the first robot controls it. Now turn on the power. As the second robot centers it will direct the first robot to have a downward arc with the sword killing your victim. Then your secondary robot will follow a downward arc triggering your first robot to have another downward arc after resetting* which triggers your second robot to have another downward arc after resetting ad infinitum cutting your victim into tiny pieces. Now when the investigators try to trace your steps then will follow an infinite regression loop and explode (unless of course they figured out that you turned off the power and then turned it back on -or- that you tricked the victim to sleep next the the sword wielding robot--better do those steps by robots as well).
* Make sure your robots reset after ever 2 or 3 seconds
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I just read Slashdot for the articles.
You fool! Did you even think of the consequences of your suggestions? Really?
In one case we can have a hot and sweaty Maria Sharapova running across the tennis court wearing a sports bra and a short tennis skirt because of the heat and in the other case we can watch a couple of technicians in coveralls changing the oil of the KR16 industrial robot. I know we're all geeks here, but c'mon!
"(using the robot's built-in 6D controller)"
I thought only Sony had that kind of technology!
Where can I buy one?
"With a long enough lag and some planning, it could make it look like the bot did it all on it's own >_>... hmm"
It wouldn't be the first time someone was killed by lag... or so they always claim.
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1. Get an industrial robot 2. Dance around it with the Wii Remote 3. ???? 4. Profit!
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I, for one, fear the military applications of this new /. meme, not like it wasn't possible before, but perhaps this might give some people ideas that would ultimately be used to kill people. After all, with geeks the world over tagging things with possible military applications, the military could just throw away their R&D department!
Sorry, I just couldn't resist. . .
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It wouldn't be the first time someone was killed by lag... or so they always claim.
It wouldn't be the first time someone was killed by a bot either.
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