Robots recruit DS for inevitable war against humans

by Eric Caoili on Feb 4th 2008 2:15PM

How many times do we have to remind you, kids -- tinkering with advanced robot technology will only lead to humanity's doom. Have you learned nothing from watching The Matrix? 2001: A Space Odyssey? The Terminator? When robots play, they play for keeps! With your life!

Ignoring our pleas of reason, a group of six engineering students in France have been working since last February to enslave a Pekee robot, programming the cute-but-deadly machine to follow orders sent from a Nintendo DS. As demonstrated in the video above, the team developed six different steering methods to pilot the Pekee with:

directional pad
touchscreen buttons
motion-based movements
stylus strokes
target mode (modeled after Super Mario 64 DS)
voice controls via DS microphone

Pretty cool, right? Just think, one day in the not-so-distant future, that little vacuum-shaped automaton will hunt your children down for sport!

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Tags: france, mic, motion, pekee, robot

Reader Comments (4)

That thing is creepy. Great to torture dogs and small children with.

Paving the way for R.O.B. 2.0!

Cool! I submitted this to digg, digg it up please.
http://digg.com/nintendo/Robots_recruit_DS_for_inevitable_war_against_humans
This is awesome, I'd love to see what else they can come up with. This gives me an idea, I'm in our school's robotics club, I should learn more homebrew programming and write a program to control our submarine from a DS.