Able to lift 1,000kg and with a reach of 3.2m, you
could say the KUKA robotic arm is being put to waste when wielding a tennis
racquet or sword for an intense Wii session. In the video above, you can see a
couple of chaps controlling the KUKA with a Wiimote, which has been hacked with
some light pattern recognition so it'd duplicate their arm swings. The
instructions on how to create a Wiimote controlled KUKA are over on their site,
but first you'll need to cough up a fair bit - here's
a second-hand one on eBay for $10k... ...
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