• Question: Can the robots you have created be controlled by iOS or android devices?

    Asked by raytheking52 to Ben, James, Jen, Michael, Susanna on 11 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: James Stovold

      James Stovold answered on 11 Mar 2013:

      Hi raytheking52,

      Certainly, because phones are just computers and almost any computer can be controlled by any other computer if you want it to, the phone could always control the robots if we wanted. In my work, however, I try to avoid telling the robots how to do anything, they have to work that out themselves, they just have an aim (to get over a crack in the floor, for example), this is where the thinking moves from our brains (when we control them using a computer or phone) to the robot’s `brain’ (when they control themselves and have to work out what they’re doing themselves).

      James

    • Photo: Susanna Martin

      Susanna Martin answered on 12 Mar 2013:

      Hi Raytheking52 – I don’t create robots in my work but we do look at how people interact with technology and some of what were doing now is finding ways of making our tools work on all devices by making them run from web browsers rather than needing specific software which might be only iOS or android compatible. It’s really important to try and future proof things as in the future there might be a whole new operating system to think about!

    • Photo: Jen Todd Jones

      Jen Todd Jones answered on 12 Mar 2013:

      Hi Ray

      I think the others can best answer this, I’m afraid I can’t contribute to questions on robots I’m not that cool!

      Jen

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