A mini robot powered by your phone Keller Rinaudo

so just by a show of hands how many of

you all have a robot at home not very

many of you okay and and and actually of

those hands if you don’t include room by

how many of you have a robot at home

okay so a couple that’s okay that’s the

problem that we’re trying to solve it

remote ofthat I and the other 20 nerds

that remote of are obsessed with solving

so we really want to build a robot that

anyone can use whether you’re eight or

eighty as it turns out that’s a really

hard problem because you have to build a

small portable robot it’s not only

really affordable but it has to be

something that people actually want to

take home and have around their kids

this robot can’t be creepy or uncanny he

should be friendly and cute so meet Romo

Romo’s a robot that uses a device you

already know and love your iPhone as his

brain and by leveraging the power of the

iphones processor we can create a robot

that is Wi-Fi enabled and computer

vision capable for a hundred and fifty

bucks which is about 1% of what these

kinds of robots have cost in the past

when Romo wakes up he’s in creature mode

so he’s actually using the video camera

on the device to follow my face if I

duck down he’ll follow me hes wery so

he’ll keep his eyes on me if i come over

here he’ll turn to follow me if i come

over here you smart he’s if I get too

close to him oh he gets scared just like

any other creature so in a lot of ways

Romo’s like a pet that has a mind of his

own thanks little guy bless you and if I

want if I want to explore the world oh

we’re almost tired if I want to explore

the world with Roma I can actually

connect him from any other iOS device so

here’s the ipad and Roma will actually

stream video to this device so i can see

everything that Romo sees and I get a

robot side view of the world now this is

a free app on the App Store so if any of

you guys had this app on your phones we

could literally

now share control of the robot and play

games together so I’ll show you really

quickly Romo actually hes streaming

videos so you can see me and the entire

Ted audience but I get in front of romo

here and if I want to control him I can

just drive so I can drive them around

and I can take pictures of you I’ve

always wanted a picture of a 1500 person

Ted audience so I’ll snap a picture and

in the same way that you scroll through

content on an iPad I can actually adjust

the angle of the camera on the device so

there are all of you through Romo’s eyes

it so and finally because Romo is an

extension of me I can express myself

through his emotion so I can go in and I

can say let’s make Romo excited but the

most important thing about romo is that

we wanted to create something that was

literally completely intuitive you do

not have to teach someone how to drive

Romo in fact who would like to drive a

robot okay awesome here you go thank you

Scott an even cooler you actually don’t

have to be in the same geographic

location as the robot to to control him

so you can imagine so he actually

streams two-way audio and video between

any two smart devices so you can log in

through the browser it’s kind of like

skype on wheels so we’re talking before

about telepresence and this is a really

cool example you can imagine an

eight-year-old girl for example who has

an iphone and her mom buys row robot

that girl can take her iphone put it on

the robot send an email to grandma who

lives on the other side of the country

grandma can log into that robot and play

hide-and-go-seek with her granddaughter

for 15 minutes every single night when

otherwise she might only be able to get

to see your granddaughter once or twice

a year thanks Scott

so those are a couple of the really cool

things that Romo can do today but I just

want to finish by talking about

something that we’re working on in the

future this is actually something that

one of our engineers Don built in a

weekend it’s built on top of a Google

open framework called blockley this

allows you to drag and drop these blocks

of semantic code and create any behavior

for this robot you want you do not have

to know how to code to create a behavior

for Romo and you can actually simulate

that behavior in the browser which is

what you see Romo doing on the left and

then if you have something you like you

can download it onto your robot and

execute it in real life run the program

in real life and then if you have

something you’re proud of you can share

it with every other person who owns a

robot in the world so all of these Wi-Fi

enabled robots actually learn from each

other the reason we’re so focused on

building robots that everyone can train

is that we think the most compelling use

cases in personal robotics are personal

they changed from person to person so we

think that if you’re going to have a

robot in your home that robot ought to

be a manifestation of your own

imagination so I wish that I could tell

you what the / the future of personal

robotics looks like to be honest I have

no idea but what we do know is that it

isn’t ten years or ten billion dollars

or a large humanoid robot away the

future of personal robotics is happening

today and it’s going to depend on small

agile robots like Romo and the

creativity of people like yourselves so

we can’t wait to get you all robots and

we can’t wait to see what you build

thank