Software engineer Taylor Veltrop figured out how to control his Nao robot by combining a Kinect, Wii remote, treadmill, and head-mounted display. Software engineer Taylor Veltrop figured out how to ...

In what some might call an unholy tandem, a Microsoft Kinect and Nintendo Wii have been hybridized together to permit a man—in this case software engineer Taylor Veltrop—to remotely brush his cat via ...

Take one Nao robot, a Kinect sensor bar, a couple of Wiimotes, a treadmill and a head-mounted display – oh, and a patient cat – and you can do what software engineer Taylor Veltrop has achieved: use a ...

The Kinectimals video game lets players pet a virtual pet on their TV screen, but Tokyo-based software engineer Taylor Veltrop has gone one step further. By pairing a Kinect sensor, a Wiimote, a ...

Just so you know it’s not all doom and cold, metal gloom when it comes to stories about our future robotic overlords, here’s a nice story that combines the internet’s love of robots with the ...

Taylor Veltrop, an enterprising roboticist with a penchant for pussies, has crafted the mother of all Kinect (and Wiimote!) hacks: The teleoperation of a robot to groom a cat. As always with these ...

Remotely operated robot helpers could well be a must-have gadget in the near future. Tokyo-based engineer Taylor Veltrop has proved how dextrous and easy to use they are by designing one that groomed ...

This was too good to wait till Future Tense’s weekly Friday robot video roundup. Roboticist Taylor Veltrop uses a treadmill, a hacked Microsoft Kinect, Wii remotes, and head-mounted display to direct ...