Remotely Pat Your Pet With Kinect and a Wiimote

[wraggster]

Taylor Valtrop, an enterprising roboticist with a penchant for kitties, has crafted the mother of all Kinect (and Wiimote!) hacks: Theteleoperation of a robot to groom a cat (http://www.extremetech.com/computing/111571-remotely-pat-your-pet-with-kinect-and-wiimote). Using a Nao, a $15,000 robot; a treadmill (for moving the robot forward); a head-mounted display (to see what the robot sees); Kinect (for tracking his movements); and two Wiimotes (to move the robot's hands), Valtrop is able to pat a cat with surprising accuracy and gentleness (except for where he accidentally hits the cat in the face)."

http://idle.slashdot.org/story/12/01/03/1722236/remotely-pat-your-pet-with-kinect-and-a-wiimote