Hacked iRobot Create uses Xbox Kinect

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Hacked iRobot Create uses Xbox Kinect
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The Kinect hackapalooza continues. Here, PhD student Philipp Robbel, of MIT’s Personal Robotics Group, combined an Xbox Kinect with an iRobot Create to come up with KinectBot. It can can generate “detailed 3D maps of its surroundings and wirelessly send them to a host computer. KinectBot can also detect nearby humans and track their movements to try and understand where they want it to go…The system uses mapping (SLAM) code from OpenSLAM.org (specifically GMapping) as well as some visualization packets from Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit (MRPT).” [Thanks, Blake!]

Hacked iRobot Uses XBox Kinect to See The World, Obey Your Commands

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2 thoughts on “Hacked iRobot Create uses Xbox Kinect

  1. Console Repair Guy says:

    WOW! That totall kicks ass! How much would it cost to get this made if I supply the Xbox 360 Kinect and the iRobot? I don’t think I could build this on my own.

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