How many times do we have to remind you, kids -- tinkering with advanced robot technology will only lead to humanity's doom. Have you learned nothing from watching The Matrix? 2001: A Space Odyssey? The Terminator? When robots play, they play for keeps! With your life!
Ignoring our pleas of reason, a group of six engineering students in France have been working since last February to enslave a Pekee robot, programming the cute-but-deadly machine to follow orders sent from a Nintendo DS. As demonstrated in the video above, the team developed six different steering methods to pilot the Pekee with:
directional pad touchscreen buttons motion-based movements stylus strokes target mode (modeled after Super Mario 64 DS) voice controls via DS microphone
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2-04-2008 @ 2:42PM
Garst said...
That thing is creepy. Great to torture dogs and small children with.
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2-04-2008 @ 3:01PM
Brello said...
Paving the way for R.O.B. 2.0!
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2-04-2008 @ 10:00PM
iofthestorm said...
Cool! I submitted this to digg, digg it up please.
http://digg.com/nintendo/Robots_recruit_DS_for_inevitable_war_against_humans
This is awesome, I'd love to see what else they can come up with. This gives me an idea, I'm in our school's robotics club, I should learn more homebrew programming and write a program to control our submarine from a DS.
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2-08-2008 @ 9:03AM
cyrman said...
Hey !
we design this robot in 2001 in our industrial design agency... nice to see that it's always used by somebody...
www.blanc-tailleur.fr
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