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Wii Hacked To Control Sword-Wielding Robot

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the no-part-of-that-title-is-not-freaking-sweet dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Military? by suyashs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh snaps!

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  2. Please Help by Whiteox · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Could someone please make Windows go away?
    It hurts my head.

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  3. Re:Obligatory. by Tim+C · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Post 1 million user slashdot? The place started going to pot around about the hundred thousand user mark if you ask me.

    (Cue 2- or 3-digit UIDer saying the same about the ten thousand user mark in 3, 2, 1...)

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