Paul Terry Walhus of Spring.net records an Ascentium demo of using the Microsoft Xbox Kinect to control some boxing robots at a SXSW 2011 trade show booth.
Ascentiumâs Kinectobots adapt Kinect technology to allow contenders to use their bodies as the controllers and drive the action of the classic Rock âEm Sock âEm toy robots. The robots are assembled by Ascentium developers and mounted on a mobile platform with wheels so that players can duke it out in real life with more mobility.
Participants can face off against friends, view others engaged in battle and score some Rock âEm Sock âEm stickers and mini thumb robots. Everyone can also follow the fight results at @Kinectobots on Twitter.
âSince the Kinect hit the streets, people have put together some pretty amazing hacks.â said Steve Farrell, Executive Creative Director at Ascentium. âThere are âMinority Reportâ interfaces, graphic manipulation tools and motion capture animation programs. But nobodyâs built fighting robots, which to us seemed like ...
