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Wii Hacked To Control Sword-Wielding Robot

WiiBot is the pet project of two engineers who apparently have way too much cool hardware and time on their hands. On the other hand, maybe they should be running a company that actually makes real things that work (as opposed to companies that just spit out business plans).

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 from the new Wii interactive video game?

from LiveScience.

WiiBot: How to build a sword-wielding, tennis-playing, WiiMote-controlled, friendly robot

The idea was to take one industrial robot, add a laptop talking to a WiiMote, strap on a tennis racket, have it follow the swings that the user makes, and do it all in a few hours on a Saturday so we could get back to our busy schedules. Of course we had to put on a sword too, and if there was time, maybe an Airsoft gun. Also, we wanted it to fight people, but you can’t have everything.
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