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Sarah Connor, Watch Out
EAA e-Hotline, Volume 10, Number 56 ^ | December 10, 2010 | EAA

Posted on 12/12/2010 6:15:11 AM PST by GBA

A quadrotor aircraft mated to a Microsoft Kinect sensor - the latest feature of the Microsoft Xbox360 video game platform - can hover around a University of California-Berkley lab, sense objects in its path, and then pause until the object is removed.

The video also shows a simulated grid view through the Kinect sensor – looks straight out of a Terminator movie. [Watch the video ]


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Military/Veterans; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: robotics; sciencefiction; terminator
Reality often makes me wish I hadn't read so much science fiction.
We may or may not have the wisdom, but we soon will have the technology.
1 posted on 12/12/2010 6:15:14 AM PST by GBA
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To: GBA
sense objects in its path, and then pause until the object is "removed".

With extreme prejudice.

2 posted on 12/12/2010 6:41:07 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: GBA
I would rather have one of these.

MikroKopter - HexaKopter

3 posted on 12/12/2010 6:52:19 AM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: GBA

“Dyson listened while the Terminator laid it all down: Skynet, Judgment Day, Xbox Kinect, the history of things to come. It’s not everyday you find out that you’re responsible for 3 billion deaths. He took it pretty well. “


4 posted on 12/12/2010 7:32:31 AM PST by 6SJ7 (atlasShruggedInd = TRUE)
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To: 6SJ7

lol


5 posted on 12/12/2010 3:00:03 PM PST by mowowie
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