Star Wars R2-M5 Droid using ROS with Voice Recognition and Localization Mapping [font="Verdana][color="#666666"]Now we're talking! A Kinect hack to join the ranks of other popular Star Wars related hacks such as the [/color][/font]Princess Leia Hologram[font="Verdana][color="#666666"]. This one involves a droid unit that can actually track people, interprete voice recognition commands as well as localization and mapping with SLAM![/color][/font] [font="Verdana]The video illustrates that this is currently in a tech demo state but is none the less [i]insanely[/i]impressive. There are motors installed for movement, a Kinect sensor embedded into the chassis of the droid, an Arduino inside that controls the drive system along with a PC in the dome of the droid that is running ROS.[/font][/color] [color="#666666"][font="Verdana]Watch the video and see as the developer Bjoern Giesler is able to issue voice commands and have the droid respond appropriately. From verbal responses to actual physical ones, this R2-M5 droid is as close to the real thing as you can imagine, or what George Lucas hired a midget to do back in the 80's.[/font][/color] [color="#666666"][font="Verdana]If you just so happen to have the equipment handy and the know-how to assemblee all of this, you can grab the source code from [url="https://sourceforge.net/projects/astromech-ros/"]https://sourceforge..../astromech-ros/[/url][/font] [font="Verdana]And don't know about you guys but I want one.[/font][/color] [color="#666666"][font="Verdana] [/font][/color] [color="#666666"][font="Verdana]Source: kinect-hacks[/font]
