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Sony Move Controller Remote More Than Games

 

 

Yesterday Sony unveiled Move.Me, a software application that allows hobbyists and academics access to the Move controller to do things like operating robots remotely. Today, we see the Move operating a robot remotely. And dare I say it, it looks like it might be good. Just as I start to decide that Sony never come out with anything original and are completely guilty of copying Nintendo all day long, they’ve done something first for once.

While not quite as impressive as some of the things we’ve seen hobbyists do with Microsoft’s Kinect, moving a robot around remotely using motion control is certainly a thing. Until now we’ve had to rely on keyboards and mice to move our robots around remotely over the internet. Surely this ushers in a new age of not being tethered to the computer to get mechanical beings to do our bidding.

And before you start winging, no, wireless mouse/keyboard doesn’t count.

Know Sony though, they’ll end up creating this robot controller and kicking off SkyNet by accident and dooming us all!

Robot Top Trumps

I was reading this post over at Boston.com, and thinking about robots I have known and loved. There was Ed209, Robocop’s Nemesis, foiled by his creator’s Dalek-like lack of foresight, there was that one with the spinning disc on the front of it that kicked everyone else’s robo-butt on Robot Wars that one time, and everybody loved the Terminator before he got old (did you know that the role of the terminator was almost given to Lance Henriksen, who played Bishop in Aliens?).

So I have a proposal for you: put a comment reminding me of the coolest or most kitsch film or real life robot you can think of, and when I’ve got 20, I’ll make a Top Trumps card game out of them, and post it here for you to print out and take to school. Just don’t start fighting about whether the T1000 should have a better weapon score than Johnny 5, or you’ll get them confiscated.