Software engineer Taylor Veltrop figured out how to control his Nao robot by combining a Kinect, Wii remote, treadmill, and head-mounted display. Software engineer Taylor Veltrop figured out how to ...

In what some might call an unholy tandem, a Microsoft Kinect and Nintendo Wii have been hybridized together to permit a man—in this case software engineer Taylor Veltrop—to remotely brush his cat via ...

Take one Nao robot, a Kinect sensor bar, a couple of Wiimotes, a treadmill and a head-mounted display – oh, and a patient cat – and you can do what software engineer Taylor Veltrop has achieved: use a ...

The Kinectimals video game lets players pet a virtual pet on their TV screen, but Tokyo-based software engineer Taylor Veltrop has gone one step further. By pairing a Kinect sensor, a Wiimote, a ...

Just so you know it’s not all doom and cold, metal gloom when it comes to stories about our future robotic overlords, here’s a nice story that combines the internet’s love of robots with the ...

Mike Fahey decided to put the Build-A-Buddy feature in Kinect Fun Labs to the test. The application allows you to scan the front and back of an object, and then the program’s background removal and ...

Taylor Veltrop, an enterprising roboticist with a penchant for pussies, has crafted the mother of all Kinect (and Wiimote!) hacks: The teleoperation of a robot to groom a cat. As always with these ...

Ever feel like someone is watching you? Like, somewhere in the back of your mind, you can feel the peering eyes of something glancing at you? Tapping into that paranoia, is this Computer Science ...

Remotely operated robot helpers could well be a must-have gadget in the near future. Tokyo-based engineer Taylor Veltrop has proved how dextrous and easy to use they are by designing one that groomed ...

This was too good to wait till Future Tense’s weekly Friday robot video roundup. Roboticist Taylor Veltrop uses a treadmill, a hacked Microsoft Kinect, Wii remotes, and head-mounted display to direct ...

I just stumbled across the work being done by Robert Hodgin as he videoed his manipulating of his Kinect data realtime with Cinder. The more I see being done with Kinect, and with Microsoft’s blessing ...

Bad news for Activision fans that were hoping to use the Move or Kinect; the publisher is convinced that the high prices for the new peripherals are going to prevent people from adopting the new ...