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"JediBot" Is Robotics Class Final Project Posted By Eric on July 18, 2011
File this under "school projects you wish you were assigned." At the culmination of their Experimental Robotics course at Stanford University, a group of students built a bizarre-looking "JediBot" that can parry a human opponent's lightsaber moves. Read on to learn more about this creation from the Stanford University News article.
"The robot needs to locate the human hand and know what strategy to take in order to make the next move ? in real time," [computer science Professor Oussama] Khatib said.
But students figured out a way to use off-the-shelf technology to make it work by incorporating the Microsoft Kinect sensor, which is best known as part of the Xbox game console. The color sensor can detect objects in three-dimensional space.
"We use the color image to isolate the sword from the background, because the opponent's sword is green and nothing else in the background is green," said graduate student Ken Oslund, who helped design what he calls the "JediBot," named in homage to the lightsaber-wielding characters from the Star Wars movies.
Take a look at the video below and just try telling me that this isn't how the Robopocalyspe starts.
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