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Something You May Find Interesting
Here is something you may find interesting, I sure did.
Kinect Body Control
— Control robot servos with Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect body tracking; map joints to upper/lower body servos with smoothing and pause control.
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The Sultan's elephant. These guys released this in London, England a bunch of years ago. There are a bunch of other amazing things these guys make in their workshop/tourist attraction in Nantes. Everything they make is like mechanical puppets (direct human control i.e. - ropes, hydraulics etc.)