A freakin' robot butler, dudes. Srsly.

Hello! I’ve started making plans for my next project: a robot butler who will fetch me beer. Here’s the idea:

• Lego Mindstorms control unit – easy to hack and send my own commands to/from.
• Lego motors, wheels and gears etc. to create a versatile, maneuverable platform thing.
• Kinect sensor to assess the environment
• Raspberry Pi to think about where the robot is looking, where it might go and to send the necessary commands to the Mindstorms unit.
• Leapmotion controller to sense me pointing to the fridge, thus commanding the robot to retrieve beer.

What do you think? I for one welcome our new beer-fetching robot overlords.

I should make special mention of the new Leap Motion device. If it works as well as the demos have shown it will be a truly stunning, possibly revolutionary gadget. I’ve applied to be a developer for this amazing piece of kit. My pitch was the robot butler thing. Hopefully the Leap people like me and my half-baked ideas.

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