In this day and age, anyone can look up the nearest restaurant, snap a filtered picture, find out what day of the week their birthday will fall on . . . over the next five years, send a text message from the bottom of a pool, play a song from their digital music library, and more, all from Apple’s iPhone device.
And while it might seem like the iPhone has already been exhausted of all its possible purposes, Keller Rinaudo, CEO of Romotive, has found yet another use for the super-versatile device: robotics.
In Rinaudo’s TED talk below, he explains his company’s thinking behind “Romo”, an easy-to-use robot whose “brain” is powered by the iPhone: the bot uses the phone’s motion sensor technology to “wake up” with its user, follows movement in a room using the device’s video camera, and more.
In terms of interaction, Romo expresses human emotions, too, where it sometimes acts frightened, yawns when tired, and more.
Given that the simplicity and friendliness of Romo is meant to appeal to all, the Romotive team is hoping one day everyone will be able to have their own personal robot.
To learn more about the development of this technology, watch Keller Rinaudo’s full TED Talk below:
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