{"id":36959,"date":"2011-07-10T14:58:31","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T14:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/not-just-sci-fi-anymore-students-create-gesture-controlled-robot-drones-discoblog\/"},"modified":"2011-07-10T14:58:31","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T14:58:31","slug":"not-just-sci-fi-anymore-students-create-gesture-controlled-robot-drones-discoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/not-just-sci-fi-anymore-students-create-gesture-controlled-robot-drones-discoblog.php","title":{"rendered":"Not Just Sci-Fi Anymore: Students Create Gesture-Controlled Robot Drones | Discoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Combining the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kinect\">Kinect<\/a>&lsquo;s body-scanning camera with overhead cameras, students at ETH Zurich&rsquo;s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.idsc.ethz.ch\/Research_DAndrea\/FMA\">Flying Machine Arena<\/a> have created a nifty quadrocopter that&rsquo;s controlled with simple gestures. Move around your right arm and the drone follows a similar path; raise your left arm and it flips; clap and it lands.<\/p><p>Hey, this is sort of like that sci-fi movie where people virtually controlled robots with just their body movements. It&rsquo;s the weekend and we can&rsquo;t think of the film&mdash;help us out in the comments section.<\/p><p>(via <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/technology\/article\/2011-07\/video-kinect-sensor-conducts-swiss-quadrocopters-flight\"><em>PopSci<\/em><\/a>)<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/10f34_JsENWc8DZXM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Combining the Kinect&lsquo;s body-scanning camera with overhead cameras, students at ETH Zurich&rsquo;s Flying Machine Arena have created a nifty quadrocopter that&rsquo;s controlled with simple gestures. Move around your right arm and the drone follows a similar path; raise your left &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/not-just-sci-fi-anymore-students-create-gesture-controlled-robot-drones-discoblog.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}