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superchunk on 26 March 2008

A few months back, some of you may remember this, I posted a thread about US military robots and the pictures showed them using 360 controllers to control the robots. Today I found this...

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 "US Army robots using Nintendo Wii

 The latest high-tech military robots are being controlled by something lots of you might find in your living rooms - the controller from a Nintendo Wii.

Because the Wii-mote is easy to get to grips with, it's now being looked at as away of directing robots that are used to clear dangerous mine-fields.

The controllers that were first checked out needed lots of concentration.

But because the Wii-mote is so simple, it allows the users to concentrate more on what's around the robot. "

 

Wii FTW!!!! 

 



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ItsaMii on 26 March 2008

Sweeeeet.
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luinil on 26 March 2008

Awesome! Now I want to see these robots and how they work... are the IED (EID?) robots? Almost makes me wanna join the army...



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ChronotriggerJM on 26 March 2008

Didn't the government just order some 300 PS3's for research? :P Maybe they're building the robots with the PS3 and controlling them with the wii >_>;



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gomezc on 26 March 2008

LOL, I can see sergeant major now with a wiimote, that would look hilarious! Effective though, with all the motion sensing. I wonder if the boys here at 2nd Mar Div, 2nd Tanks will get to see some of that in action this August.



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superchunk on 26 March 2008

yeah, i can't find any pics yet...but I am curious if it is just wiimote or nunchuck too?



mesoteto on 26 March 2008

@Lu--almost right?
i mean you would still have to go on active duty to get to use them



 

Words Of Wisdom on 26 March 2008

First the Cell... then BluRay... and now the Wiimote...

Does the US Military have too much money or something?



superchunk on 26 March 2008
ChronotriggerJM said:
Didn't the government just order some 300 PS3's for research? :P Maybe they're building the robots with the PS3 and controlling them with the wii >_>;

 Holy crap, you're right. I forgot about that.

However, the gov got the PS3's for similation testing, they don't build the robots themselves.  



BenKenobi88 on 26 March 2008

I don't get why the Army constantly uses videogame controllers. Yeah, they're easy to learn, but are our soldiers really that dumb, and is the Army really that cheap?

Surely there's better motion control devices, more accurate, but obviously more expensive. And I guess I'm just confused why they'd opt for motion control, which can be a little iffy...there's nothing iffy about pressing a button to issue a command.



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