Robot Pops, Delivers Corn: order sent via Twitter

On the way home recently, I used an iPod Touch and Twitter to send a command to my robot to pop corn and ready the DVD for movie time. Here's a reenactment.

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Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• robotics project
• mobile robotics
• robotics software
• Twitter
• rover robot
• iPhone
• eee pc
• iPod

[girthmatters]

I get the iPod to Twitter part, but how does your robot get that command?

[RoBeDoRobotics]

Well, programming with Twitter is easy.

And because my robot has his own Twitter account and his own WiFi laptop he simply periodically checks for messages from me.

When a command comes in Coppa robot processes it and then sends me a message when he finishes the request.

[littlemexicantheif]

reALLIY ITS A SIMPLE -PROGRAM YOU JUST NEED TIO KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH THE NAVUI=IGATION

[teledaveaustin]

That is too cool. Now imagine an army of popcorn bowl wielding robots visiting the ill, weak and those without popcorn. Utopia!

[cncfreakcncfreak]

Nice robot, where did you get those wheels from?

[SmaSelf]

Thanks.

And yay! Another irony aficionado! :D

[sfgeek]

I have to admit the irony of a household with a *Twitter* based, popcorn delivering *mobile robot* with a 15" CRT TV was, amusing, to say the least!

Excellent work on you and your husband's part.

[SmaSelf]

Mrs. RoBe:Do here --I think I purchased that TV in 1989... and have lived without TV reception practically ever since! We do watch movies on DVD*, but otherwise this was the TV's most useful moment. :)

*That's a mid-80s stereo receiver, not a VCR as suggested elsewhere online. LOL! (I am a confessed half-Luddite: half of me ignores technology while the other half tweets away and helps build robots. ;))

[9arish]

twitter爆米花机器人，从制作到投送一站式服务。

[kayne001]

LOL at the tv in the end

[4Greyboy]

a rusiian film ?! )

[brepettis]

Awesome!