Kinect-Powered, duel "JediBot", created by students at Stanford Robotics

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Some time has passed we have posted any interesting Kinect hacks. They were coming fast and furious for some time, but this is the first I've seen in a while like this really makes me happy. Robotics students at Stanford put together this "JediBot" from the hinge and Kinect (and of course a bit of Robotics LEU). Kinect tracks the location of both "lightsabers" and has a robot to attack or defend step, based on their position.

Now he is not going too fast, but considering the fact that these weapons robot capable of, I'm not sure I'd like this is going at full speed.

Check out the Stanford news about the project here, then go to tag Robocalypse to understand why learning robots Sword fight is not the best idea.

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