ROMO The Smartphone Robot

Description

Meet Romo!

Romo is an amazing robot companion that learns while you play!

Romo is a revolutionary mobile robotic platform that uses your smartphone as its brain. When connected with an iPhone 4 or 4S, Romo becomes a friend robotic avatar that recognizes ands your face by rotating and tilting. He also performs behaviors and actions that you program youself, is capable of fully functional telepresence and has machine vision! Romo is the first personal robot built for everyone. Romo has been described and featured as the world's first smartphone robotic platform by TED, Wall St. Journal, CNN, Popular Science, Edgadget and more.

Romo comes with the Romo the Smartphone Robot and A USB cable for charging. Romo requires an iPhone 4 or 4S to dock, or an 4th generation iPod Touch. The Romo App can be used to control Romo on any iPod from Gen 3+, iPhone 3GS, 4, 4S, % 5, iPad2, New iPad, or any computer running OSX 10.6 or better.

Features

Physical:
Tank Power Treads Romo zips along a variety of surfaces: concrete, wood, low pile and high pile carpet, grass and dirt.
Tilt Mechanism Tilt Romo 15 degrees forward or 45 degrees backward to see where he's going.
Turn Radius Spin and rotate Romo 360 degrees while remaining stationary
Recharge with USB Charge Romo's battery pack and your iOS device anywhere using the included custom mini USB cable.
Mobile Alarm Clock When you are using Romo as a docking station to charge your iOS device, you can program Romo to be an alrm clock to play your favorite songs in the morning.
Sensors Romo uses the iPhone/iPod touch screen to respond to pokes, camera to determine how close you are, and accelerometer plust gyroscope to determine when he's picked up.
Development:
Develop Apps Using the Romotive SDK (Software Development Kit). Our SDK allows programmers everywhere to create and publish new games and cool behaviors for Romo
Mobile Robot Platform Romo gives researchers an accessible and affordable robot platform that can be used for real world applications or testing experiments.
Software
Telepresence 2-way video/audio stream and remote control of Romo from an iOS device or web browser, from anywhere in the world. Simple as calling someone on the phone.
Robot Training Interface Train Romo how to physically react and behave to the world around him through a simlpified visual interface (like basic programming) on the free Romo mobile app.
Create Mode & Facial Tracking Romo looks for your face and follows you by rotating and tilting to make sure he can see you
Romo Character Emotions Romo can express himself by combining physical movements when he makes a face or emotion. Available through the mobile training interface in the app and over both telepresence and Wi-Fi remote control.
Physical Behaviors Drive, turn, titl, take pictures/video, play songs, shuffle music, and blink Romo's lights. Adjust the speed, turn radius and degree of tilt, too!
Roaming Photo Booth Train Romo to automatically take pictures whever he sees a face to have a personal roaming photographer
Personal Video Camera Tell Romo to start recording videos to be a mobile security video camera
Mobile DJ Romo can play your favorite songs or shuffle through your music collection while driving around the house
Time-based Behaviors Customize Romo to play your favorite songs in the morning as an alarm clock or act excited as your getting ready to go out.