ANUBIS, A Natural User Bot Interface System

[Matt], [Andrew], [Noah], and [Tim] have a pretty interesting build for their capstone project at Ohio Northern University. They’re using a Microsoft Kinect, and a Leap Motion to create a natural user interface for controlling humanoid robots.

The robot the team is using for this project is a tracked humanoid robot they’ve affectionately come to call Johnny Five.  Johnny takes commands from a computer, Kinect, and Leap motion to move the chassis, arm, and gripper around in a way that’s somewhat natural, and surely a lot easier than controlling a humanoid robot with a keyboard.

The team has also released all their software onto Github under an open source license. You can grab that over on the Gits, or take a look at some of the pics and videos from the Columbus Mini Maker Faire.

14 thoughts on “ANUBIS, A Natural User Bot Interface System

  1. I’m one of the members of the ANUBIS project. Just wanted to say our team is shocked and humbled to see it get picked up by hackaday!

        1. The Kinect is a V1. The drivers are the standard SDK that you get from Microsoft. The driving force is the kinematics code in the client software.

      1. He is equipped with the standard servo and motor controller. A Beagle Bone Black is added to handle network communications, video stream, and hardware communication. Oh… and a Nerf gun ;)

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