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Old Roomba Vac Modified into a Robot Controlled by Google+ Hangout Users

Aug 9, 2012 09:40 PM
Demonstration of a robotic device with a tablet interface.

This is OSCAR, the Overly Simplified Collaboratively Actuated Robot. He's built from an old Roomba and an Android tablet, and he's about to make Google+ a lot more interesting.

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The robot is controllable by users in a Google+ Hangout, allowing the audience to interactively explore OSCAR's environment via his on-board camera.

Through a web server on the tablet, and a custom Google+ Hangout, users in the group can enter commands into a queue, giving everyone a turn to control the curious robot.

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Visit the creator's website to learn more, or pick up his code to give it a try yourself! Hopefully this is the start of a lot more clever uses for Google's social networking infrastructure.

The next big software update for iPhone is coming sometime in April and will include a Food section in Apple News+, an easy-to-miss new Ambient Music app, Priority Notifications thanks to Apple Intelligence, and updates to apps like Mail, Photos, Podcasts, and Safari. See what else is coming to your iPhone with the iOS 18.4 update.

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