Robot Avatar Brushes Cat Remotely in Virtual Reality [Kinect, Wii, HMD, Treadmill, NAO]
This is the culmination of my last year’s work. I control the robot’s arms through the Kinect and Wii remotes. I control the robot’s navigation through the Kinect and treadmill. I control the robot’s head through the head mounted display (HMD). I also see through the robot’s eyes with the HMD.
After doing this exercise, it became apparent that the next feature to add is hearing and speaking through the robot. Luckily both the NAO and my HMD have microphones and speakers so this shouldn’t be too difficult.
This was the second try accomplishing brushing the cat. On the first try we discovered that the positioning of the brush in NAO’s hand needed to be flipped 180 degrees from the intuitive direction.
The low framerate is because my ancient laptop can’t handle doing a screen capture with all this stuff going on.
Duration : 0:4:25
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Hey, want u try robot on my cat? To try his self-defense capabilities:D
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You’re a very smart dude.
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Why are we not funding this?
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sheldom would like this
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Dudes gotta have an asian girlfriend right?
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“Huston, I am now approaching the lifeform.” “Roger, proceed with caution.”
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BRUSH!
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this is awsome
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bwahahaha… Well, first, amazing work. But… BWHAHAAHA.. my cats would have been GONE the minute you stepped on the treadmill.
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Cat is like, WTF!?
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@Andrew4TOD Or blow them up with heat seeking rocket launchers and mounted GAU-17/A’s. >:3
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@rooroo1988 My God, we’ll be able to pat the enemy into submission! :3
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@rooroo1988 I’m dreading the inevitability.
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I know I’m not the only one thinking about military equipped robots in the future with this capability.
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You sir are amazing
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Like the movie: Surrogates, cool!
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THUMBS UP IF TWITTER BROUGHT U HERE
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凄い！☆♬
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@MrLenin I was about 4 meters away. Small apartment. Soon I’ll try this cross-continental.
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@stop4stuff If I am not over the treadmill the robot won’t move. If my torso is lower than a meter the robot sits down.
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Ok, you’re hired.
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Good god, FX 2: The Art of Illusion could be a reality.
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so wait. millions of evolution to allow you to remotely control a robot with your body, and you say to yourself, hey, why not brush my cat?
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