Kinect Enabled Personal Robot

This video shows a GeckoSystems' Carebot(tm), equipped with a pair of Microsoft Kinect sensors, navigating through a narrow passageway cluttered with various obstacles. This represents the worst case for in-home navigation.

Kinect processing is handled by a piece of software called GeckoImager, running on a dual core 1.66GHz Intel Atom motherboard. The navigation is handled by two other GeckoSavants(tm), GeckoNav and GeckoSuper, running on a separate dual core Atom machine. Both computers were located on the robot during the video.

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[Andy Anderson]

At least this one will not argue with you, I hope.

[John C]

Fricken lame! Once again I've been spammed for some ridiculous useless invention. What is this moron robot supposed to do for us?

[robotfutures17]

It might seem like you can strap on a kinect and turn just about anything into a fully self navagating robot. NOT THE CASE. This is high tech stuff!

[TheDamnSpot]

Yeah, things get a lot easier when the processing core can map its environment into quantifiable objects. A few choice bits of coding to get it to recognize certain shapes and presto, you've got a fairly capable robot. Add a couple of arms and algorithms to drive their behavior and you've got SUPER ROBOSERVANT!!!