Kinect Revolutionizing Robotics 83
HizookRobotics writes "The Bilibot Project, an open-source robot platform based on Microsoft's Kinect, was just announced by MIT researcher Garratt Gallagher on Hizook.com. Bilibot is just the first in what will likely be a torrent of robots (both hobbyist and professional) utilizing the Kinect. This sentiment was echoed in an essay by Fred Nikgohar, CEO of RoboDynamics, who believes we've reached a watershed moment in robotics enabled by cheap 3D sensing. While much of the attention for the Kinect has focused on video gaming, perhaps robotics will be its greatest beneficiary."
Re:Kinect is not Microsoft's invention. (Score:4, Informative)
Kinect was actually developed by PrimeSense.
This is not entirely correct. One part of Kinect was licensed from PrimeSense, the range camera. Microsoft developed the software technology internally. People can argue, and do, what is the most important part, but I think it is the combination that is unique.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinect#Technology [wikipedia.org]