Roomba to Dalek evolution- A.K.A Hacked iRobot uses XBox Kinect to see the world through new eyes,

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We are getting closer and closer to when Roombas evolve into Daleks. Rosie the Roomba at our shop has 'died' a mysterious death. I know she's really getting upgraded by Cybermen. You can't fool me Rosie, I am onto you.










http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/11/hacked_irobot_uses_xbox_kinect.html



From the blog:


"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)."

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