The Kinect 3D Sensor may be a robot's best friend. Willow Garage recently sponsored a Kinect-hack competition for the open source Robot Operating System (ROS). Amateur and professional engineers from ...

It’s been the dream of many to have a house robot that is capable of wandering your rooms waiting for your next command. If you can’t wait for the trillion dollar tech companies to create exactly what ...

You’ve heard the rumors, and they’re true: Microsoft’s motion-sensing Kinect camera turns out to be hacktastic. Mouse pointers and picture shuffling? So 2010. Why not control robots with your arms?