Thursday 15 January 2015

SHARING ABOUT TECHNOLOGY

As for you, the smart phone might just be your friend. But a true friend will occasionally give you a smile. In TED 2013 conference, Keller Rinaudo show Romo, a mini-robot controlled by a smart phone, it can take a walk with you that can help you transport a cup of coffee on the table, it can be programmed to respond to you face.

The robot Romo use your phone as his brain and by leveraging the power of the iphone's processor. They can create a robot that is wifi enabled and computer vision-capable for 150 bucks which is about 1% of what these kinds of robots have spent in the past.

It can also connect him from any other ios device such as ipad to control it. Romo will actually stream video to this device, people can see everything that Romo sees.
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4 comments:

  1. Andrew Wood16 January 2015 at 02:06

    Isn't this a bit creepy? What kind of experience do you have by watching what is streamed by a remote phone? Do you think this has anything in common with the discussion we are having about drones?

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  2. Andrew Wood16 January 2015 at 02:06

    Could you post the link to the TED lecture here too??

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  3. Unknown16 January 2015 at 02:17

    Do you think it could be combine with Siri so you can actually talk to your robot? For me I think it's just a fun technology to be honest because I can not see any big contribution it's gonna bring to people. Anyway with a reasonable price, I think they can make it big in some market.

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  4. Andrew Wood16 January 2015 at 03:46

    What is shown here is quite dumb, in my opinion, but it is indicative of the types of technology which are being developed: remote accessibility, personalised technology, internet of things, AI, technology as companionship. What would anyone want their smartphone to be their "friend"? Why can't we interact with people anymore?

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