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02/20/2008

VIDEO: Gesture-Controlled Robot Uses 3D Virtual Cubes to Process Data

Built by Tokyo University engineer Tsuyoshi Horo, this high-tech robot uses cameras to "create a real-time, 3D, volumetric model of objects or people in the space, which is then converted into a psychedelic stack of virtual cubes which are read and processed as data." Videos after the break.

The researcher is utilizing a circular array of cameras to track and detect body movement within a controlled environment, and then translate those movements to actions for an automaton
[via Engadget]





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