Virtual Reality with Kinect.

Kinect is very popular in Maker/Hacker community. Kinent can help you to detect human motion easily, and people already made so many projects with it. Here is one of the project by combing VR glasses and Kinect, you will be inside a VR world and interact with virtual objects.

Open Source Robotic Platform : Darwin-OP

This cool robot together with a open source framework, you can write your own software to control it. How cool is it? you can take a look of this demo:


and be sure to check out the open source project:
http://darwinop.sourceforge.net/

it is around $9600-12000 US dollars, too expensive for me, but it is nice to see a cool robot:P

AUTOM: the weight loss coach.

AUTOM is a product of Intuitive Automata, Inc. She is a weight loss coach, who help you to keep fit. The robot is now not only working in factory, or a prototype, it is real and interact with you at home! That's awesome! Check the demo video here:

Introducing Autom™ from Erica Young on Vimeo.

OpenCV Face Detection Visualized

I used OpenCV with processing and also in embedded system, the build-in face detector is very easy to use. If you wonder how it works, here is a good video to show you:

OpenCV Face Detection: Visualized from Adam Harv on Vimeo.

and also check out the article here:
http://ahprojects.com/c/ahprojects/research

Android Controlled Robot.

It is a cool project by Radu Motisan, he made a robot and control remotely with his Android Phone via Bluetooth. Source codes for both Android (bluetooth control) & ATmega are available on his website!


Demo here:



Project site here:
http://www.pocketmagic.net/?p=1398

Robot Sing & Dance.

Another awesome japanese robot:P

Robot Archer iCub.

Just came across this cool youtube about a Robot can learn archer.