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Originally Posted by matessim

Its not going to be robot mounted, its going to be part of the driver station, the driver station has a USB port and the whole point of it is to control the robot with NUI.

Source:http://www.usfirst.org/aboutus/press...inect-for-2012
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The addition of Kinect for Xbox 360 will allow the competitors to “be the robot,” using a natural user interface to control and interact with their robots with gestures, without the need to use a joystick, game controller, or other input device.

Please read the thread before posting.

Originally Posted by GlassPrison142

The last question on http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/kinect

Q: Can I put the Kinect on my robot to detect other robots or field elements?

While the focus for Kinect in 2012 is at the operator level, as described above, there are no plans to prohibit teams from implementing the Kinect sensor on the robot.