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 ...

Microsoft’s Kinect is being hacked left, right and center, with all sorts of exciting uses in its future. But Willow Garage, purveyor of research humanoid robots, has created the best mashup yet: ...

Makers, developers, and hobbyists who have a spare Microsoft Kinect gesture-based controller lying around may be interested in a new DIY human-following robot. This innovative project has been created ...

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 ...