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Rock ‘em Sock’ em Robots have already seen some new life into an augmented reality demo, and they have now got another taste of the future – Zachery Shivers and Anne Flinchbaugh have a motion-controlled version of the game as part of Texas Instruments’ Co-op Design Challenge. As you can probably imagine, a lot of servos and circuit boards required under the ring, but the main ingredient accelerometer features TI Chronos watch that your real shocks through to rock ‘em sock’ em strike. Check it out in action in the video after the break, and hit the source link below for full details on building your own.

As shown, industrial-strength robot arms account for more than amusing hijinks and occasional assembly line – a team of researchers from the German Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics have turned a KUKA KR 500 in the ultimate Formula 1 driving simulator. Reduction in the six-axis, a half-ton lifter with a force feedback steering wheel, pedals, video projector and curved screen, the newly-baptized Cyber Motion Simulator allows scientists a virtual Ferrari F2007 racing car to throw in the corners, while the cockpit around whips with up to 2 Gs of equal and opposite force-Newtonian. There is really no loftier goal for this specific scientific project, as was the whole gist om a racing game that’s as feels like the real thing – but to be honest, half paper tested to see whether or head-projectors mounted displays made for better drivers. (Projectors won.) See how close they came to reality in a video after the break, while a small experiment to carry out our own.