Hacked iRobot Uses XBox Kinect to See The World, Obey Your Commands
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Hacked iRobot Uses XBox Kinect to See The World, Obey Your Commands
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Re: Hacked iRobot Uses XBox Kinect to See The World, Obey Your Commands
#2I, for one, welcome our Robot overlords.
Re: Hacked iRobot Uses XBox Kinect to See The World, Obey Your Commands
#3Kinect has been out for less than two weeks! I can't wait to see what these hacks look like after a year. There's so much potential in using Kinect as a robot sensor package it's not even funny.
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#4I almost wonder if Kinect will be big like the Wii due to the impressive amount of hacking done with it's hardware much like the Wii had with it's Wiimote.
Re: Hacked iRobot Uses XBox Kinect to See The World, Obey Your Commands
#5Next step is for someone to hook this to the top of their car and teach it to autopilot.
Re: Hacked iRobot Uses XBox Kinect to See The World, Obey Your Commands
#6The article claims this is "the first iRobot to finally use SLAM".
See Gerkey's Create+Hokuyo SLAM HOWTO from March 2006, predating this "first" by 4.5 years.
http://www.ai.sri.com/~gerkey/roomba/index.html
Also, since the Create was designed and sold for exactly this kind of thing (it is a Roomba without the cleaning guts and with a published external control protocol), how is this a hack? Sigh.
Re: Hacked iRobot Uses XBox Kinect to See The World, Obey Your Commands
#7I, for one, welcome our Robot overlords.
I, for one, welcome our new kinect powered robot overlords.
Re: Hacked iRobot Uses XBox Kinect to See The World, Obey Your Commands
#8Next step is for someone to hook this to the top of their car and teach it to autopilot.
I doubt it, last time I checked the kinect had a very low range, below the 4m mark I think, If you stand too far away from the sensor the magic fades away.
Re: Hacked iRobot Uses XBox Kinect to See The World, Obey Your Commands
#9The article claims this is "the first iRobot to finally use SLAM". See Gerkey's Create+Hokuyo SLAM HOWTO from March 2006, predating this "first" by 4.5 years. http://www.ai.sri.com/~gerkey/roomba/index.html Also, since the Create was designed and sold for exactly this kind of thing (it is a Roomba without the cleaning guts and with a published external control protocol), how is this a hack? Sigh.
To be clear, I'm pointing out only the sloppy "journalism".
The Kinect was slapped on there as a cheap new sensor for already existing SLAM* software. I'm sure the student would not claim novelty for that, and will be facepalming if he reads the linked article. This may be the first working Kinect-based SLAM system (outside Microsoft), a few hours before the next fifty instances. The gesture interpretation shown in the last few seconds is the novel contribution here.
iRobot Creates are used for SLAM every day in tens, maybe hundreds of labs around the world.
It's a shame that this AI-themed blog couldn't be a bit more careful about simple facts.
[*Simultaneous Localization and Mapping]
Re: Hacked iRobot Uses XBox Kinect to See The World, Obey Your Commands
#10I almost wonder if Kinect will be big like the Wii due to the impressive amount of hacking done with it's hardware much like the Wii had with it's Wiimote.
I don't think the causality (hacking->popularity) runs that way. If anything, I'd think it runs the other way (popularity of the Wii made the Wiimote available in every game store and cheap for hacking on.)
However, the popularity of the Wii would seem to have been due to it being novel and fun.