New CASMOBOT Lawnmower Controlled By a Wiimote

An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at the University of Southern Denmark have modified a Wiimote so that it can control an industrial lawn mower. The project is called Casmobot (Computer Assisted Slope Mowing Robot). 'The Casmobot project is about making grass cutting more efficient,' said Kjeld Jensen, a robotics researcher at the University of Southern Denmark who developed the system. It uses a standard Wiimote that communicates via Bluetooth to a computer and robotics module built into the mower. Actions of the mower are matched to tilt actions of the remote. For example, if you tilt the remote down the mower moves forwards; tilt it up, and it moves backwards, and so on. The Wiimote can be used to control the mower manually or in computer-assisted mode, where the mower uses autonomous navgiation based on RTK GPS positioning to cut larger areas."

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Missing the retarded tag?

[BitZtream]

Why hasn't this been tags as retarded yet?

Much like the Wiimote is a horrible game controller for almost every Wii game made sense they try to stuff it into the role of a traditional controller anyway, there are far more intelligent controllers to use for a lawnmower than a Wiimote.

This is just a retarded way to control something hoping to gain some attention because it has 'Wii' in the press release.

While its neat that someone did it and all that, its a stupid idea in general. Would you try to drive a car with a Wii mote, if you answer yes, give up your drivers license and life, you don't deserve to live.