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Rice University today revealed that it is using the Nintendo Wii to help program robots. Rice professors Marcia O'Malley and Michael Byrne are hoping to use these machines to map out how people learn physical tasks. Using a grant, the two professors will measure the motions required to do tasks like playing paddleball and flying a plane, all using the accelerometer in the Wii Remote.
"It's the only part of the system we really need," said O'Malley, director of Rice's Mechatronics and Haptic Interfaces Laboratory. "We're already grabbing motion data from the [Wii Remote], so soon we'll be able to measure a range of motion and then turn it into a mathematical model."
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"It's the only part of the system we really need," said O'Malley, director of Rice's Mechatronics and Haptic Interfaces Laboratory. "We're already grabbing motion data from the [Wii Remote], so soon we'll be able to measure a range of motion and then turn it into a mathematical model."
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