So just by show of hands , how many of you all have a robot at home ?
Not very many of you
Okay.And actually of those hands , if you don’t include Roomba how many of you have a robot at home?
So a couple?
That okay .that’s the problem that we’re trying to solve at Romotive—that I and the other 20 nerds at Romotive are obseed with solving .
So we really want to build a robot that anyone can use , whether you’re eight or 80.And as it turns out , that’s a really hard problem.
Because you have to build a small , portable robot that’s not only really affordable ,but it has to be something that people actually to take home and have around their kids .
This tobot cant’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 iPone as his brain .And leveraging the power of the iPome’s proceor.
We can creat a robot that is wi-fi enabled and computer vision-capable for 150 bucks ,which is about one percent of what these kinds of robots have cost in the past .
When Romo wakes up , he’s in creatunre mode .
So he’s actually using the video camera on the device to follow my face .
If I duck down , he’ll follow me .
He’s wary , so he’ll keep his eyes on me .
If I come over here , he’ll turn to follow me .
If I come over here , --(Laughs)
