Robots recruit DS for inevitable war against humans
by Eric Caoili 
{ Feb 4th 2008 at 2:15PM }
How many times do we have to remind you, kids -- tinkering with advanced robot technology will only lead to humanity's doom. Have you learned nothing from watching The Matrix? 2001: A Space Odyssey? The Terminator? When robots play, they play for keeps! With your life!
Ignoring our pleas of reason, a group of six engineering students in France have been working since last February to enslave a Pekee robot, programming the cute-but-deadly machine to follow orders sent from a Nintendo DS. As demonstrated in the video above, the team developed six different steering methods to pilot the Pekee with:
directional pad touchscreen buttons motion-based movements stylus strokes target mode (modeled after Super Mario 64 DS) voice controls via DS microphone
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Garst @ Feb 4th 2008 2:42PM
That thing is creepy. Great to torture dogs and small children with.
Brello @ Feb 4th 2008 3:01PM
Paving the way for R.O.B. 2.0!
iofthestorm @ Feb 4th 2008 10:00PM
Cool! I submitted this to digg, digg it up please.
http://digg.com/nintendo/Robots_recruit_DS_for_inevitable_war_against_humans
This is awesome, I'd love to see what else they can come up with. This gives me an idea, I'm in our school's robotics club, I should learn more homebrew programming and write a program to control our submarine from a DS.
cyrman @ Feb 8th 2008 9:03AM
Hey !
we design this robot in 2001 in our industrial design agency... nice to see that it's always used by somebody...
www.blanc-tailleur.fr