Building a Robot that Can Play Angry Birds on a Smartphone, (or Robots are the Future of Testing)

Jason Huggins
Can your robot play Angry Birds? On an iPhone? Mine can. I call it "BitbeamBot". It started as an art project, but it has a much more serious practical application: mobile web testing. To trust that your mobile app truly works, you need

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[Alex anon]

Wow. so much vaporware. Recording a bunch of command line bullcrap for nothing is pretty useless. The actual angry birds playing robot is useless. Selenium is a piece of shit. Anyone who really needs to automate, just write your own framework. It'll save you hundreds upon hundreds of hours of debugging this low quality selenium framework.

[mailarrives]

as compared to this: /watch?v=_d0LfkIut2M ... angry bird playing robot is not so amazing sadly ... nice work though ... keep it up :)

[maztah001]

"Hey, let my robot get you a soda"

*Disappears behind laptop screen and programs every single command*

[xchvcwryb]

I gave up after 2 minuts.

I really don't care which url's you've registered.

[Jeff Keegan]

Why shouldn't people use XPath?

[jaywgraves]

You could do something similar by dragging the actuator along a path (Angry Birds example) but you would have to figure out often to sample the servo angles.

It's possible 'start' and 'end' points can be defined and hope that servo angles for the start x/y/z coordinates can be linearly interpolated to the end x/y/z but I don't know if the math will work out.

[jaywgraves]

I sent an email to Jason with some thoughts and he asked that I re-post the content here.

You can mod a hobby servo to output its position.

google for 'servo with feedback' and/or 'servo position recording'

Rewrite the program to have a 'training' mode where you position the actuator by hand and then hit a button to remember that position by reading the angle of the 3 servos. Switch back to 'play' mode & trigger the position you saved. That will work for the 'clicks' in Tic-Tac-Toe. cont...