Giving Avatars Real Bodies
Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 6:37 pm
http://www.robotworldnews.com/100328.php
You wanna tea-bad that orc or cyborz with that elf IRL, well it might not be far off.
You wanna tea-bad that orc or cyborz with that elf IRL, well it might not be far off.
Scientists have developed an interface between reality and virtual reality in which, in a sense, virtual reality can control reality.
The puppet-like system is called "Ubibot" (short for "ubiquitous robot"), and is a composite of three different types of robots: Sobot a software robot (a virtual reality avatar), Mobot a mobile robot, and Embot an embedded robot.