Video: iPhone controls robot – 10 million iPhones = 10 million robots
by at June 25, 2008 9:44 pm
Sections: iPhone OS, SDK and hacks, iPhone/iPod touch/iPad
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If you find it too hard to control your vacuum, Rodrigo Guiterrez and Jeff Craig of the University of South Florida have created a native iPhone app to allow the iPhone to control the iRobot Packbot over Wi-Fi. The iRobot Packbot has a built in camera, and you’ll see video from the camera streamed onto your iPhone. Oh, so they’re going into other campuses and spying on them with this small little robot?
On the iPhone, you’re able to control this robot vacuum with arrows, but the developers hope to make it possible to control with the accelerometer.
The coolest part is that this isn’t just some awesome college project we hear about and never see; the program will hit the App Store in July, though pricing hasn’t been decided.
Via [MacLife]
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