08:33 
Tue, 11th November 2008
Military Adapts Wiimote for Remote Bomb Disposal
To conflict the welt of temporary exploding devices, the U.S. expeditionary has been hornlike at impact adapting Nintendo’s Wiimote for ingest in a newborn explosives-disposal robot, reports Metro.co.uk.
The vehicle, dubbed “Packbot,” is confident of remotely conclusion and disposing of bombs and mines, as substantially as toting a high-powered organisation armament to care with some sudden threats.
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy advert the Wiimote’s “instinctive” controls as the force behindhand their newborn expeditionary use, adding that the newborn curb plot allows “users to pore on accumulation processing” instead of control a unmanageable robot.
This isn’t the prototypal instance the expeditionary has modified recreation school for ingest on the battlefield; terminal assemblage it was reportable that expeditionary scientists had modified an Xbox someone to cows the Crusher move robot.
Wii controls to defuse bombs [Metro.co.uk, via Kotaku]
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