A japanese inventor, or should I say computer hacker, has come up with a way to control a Roomba robotic vac with Microsoft's new Kinect program. Though you ordinarily would just allow a Roomba to turn on do its thing, Ogutti the hacker, has found a way to make the machine follow hand movement with no remote control involved. I wouldn't want to have to direct a robotic machine while doing the whole house but I see an advantage if it is suddenlty required for spot cleaning or sweeping up dry spills. A brief articla and a video demo can be found at the following link.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/video-hacking-microsoft-kinect-and-a-roomba/
Venson
This message was modified Feb 17, 2011 by Venson
