WiiMote-controlled industrial robot armSword-wielding, tennis-playing, WiiMote-controlled, friendly robot.  
The result of a Saturday spent trying to get a Wii-mote controller to control the actions of an industrial manufacturing robot, the KR16.
A tennis racket is fixed to the end of the robot arm, and later a sword takes it's place which proves to be much more menacing. The robot arm is connected to a laptop that is interpreting the Wii-Mote's movements and relaying them to the arm. The robot imitates the actions well, but they are all pre-programmed and it has to wait until the person has finished performing the action until it knows which instruction to send to the robot, which then carries out the action. Read more about the WiiBot at: http://www.usmechatronics.com/usmgarage/WiiBot.html For more industrial robot fun, check out Ride the robot arm. Email this story to a friend  Add this link to:            
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