Kinect Revolutionizes Robotics

Kinect Revolutionizes Robotics – Learn how Microsoft’s release of the Kinect, a $150 add-on for Xbox 360 that allows players to direct the action in a game simply by moving their bodies, has impacted robotics vision systems. While most people were fascinated by the controller-free interface, roboticists saw something else entirely: an affordable, lightweight camera that could capture 3-D images in real time.