http://youtu.be/A52FqfOi0Ek Combining the Kinect's body-scanning camera with overhead cameras, students at ETH Zurich’s Flying Machine Arena have created a nifty quadrocopter that's controlled with simple gestures. Move around your right arm and the drone follows a similar path; raise your left arm and it flips; clap and it lands. Hey, this is sort of like that sci-fi movie where people virtually controlled robots with just their body movements. It's the weekend and we can't think of the film—help us out in the comments section. (via PopSci)
Not Just Sci-Fi Anymore: Students Create Gesture-Controlled Robot Drones
Discover how the Kinect body-scanning camera powers a gesture-controlled quadrocopter at ETH Zurich’s Flying Machine Arena.
Written byJoseph Castro
| 1 min read
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