Zachery Shivers and Anne Flinchbaugh has created a Kinect-like motion controlled robot, by using some accelerometer-equipped watch and plenty of circuit boards built onto the Rock ‘em Sock ‘em Robots. The key device here is Texas Instrument’s accelerometer-equipped Chronos watch, which lets you translate your actual punches into rock ‘em sock ‘em punches. This design is actually part of Texas Instruments’ Co-op Design Challenge. That’s how they do it, and that’s how the robots gonna kick yo! Check out the video below to see how the robots kick ass (barely…).

[Electronic Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots via Engadget]