23.04.2008 15:53 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

Guitar Hero 'Slashbot' riffs uncontrollably, plots mankind's downfall

Filed under: Gaming, Robots It's clear that everyone is looking for a way to game the system these days. The video game system, that is. In the vein of that Guitar Hero cheat-mod we saw the other day, four undergraduate students at Texas A&M University have built a Guitar Hero playing robot that can shred with the best of them no hands required. The system -- dubbed Slashbot -- works as a completely standalone process, using a converter box to translate specific pixel information from the screen intro note presses and strums on the mechanical contraption. On average, the bot is achieving 90 percent accuracy in expe

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