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Remotely Pat Your Pet With Kinect and a Wiimote

Posted by samzenpus on from the petting-at-a-distance dept.

MrSeb writes "Taylor Valtrop, an enterprising roboticist with a penchant for kitties, has crafted the mother of all Kinect (and Wiimote!) hacks: The teleoperation of a robot to groom a cat. Using a Nao, a $15,000 robot; a treadmill (for moving the robot forward); a head-mounted display (to see what the robot sees); Kinect (for tracking his movements); and two Wiimotes (to move the robot's hands), Valtrop is able to pat a cat with surprising accuracy and gentleness (except for where he accidentally hits the cat in the face)."

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  1. predictable result by Trepidity · · Score: 5, Funny

    By the end of the video the cat is pretty annoyed and trying to attack the robot...

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  2. My cat doesn't even care if *I* pet him. by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    At least he can't regard the Kinect with any less aloofness than he already does me.

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