A story’s come through to us today, from Trendhunter, about Jatinderjit Singh’s pet project the TeMo (short for Telerobotics over Mobile packet data services), which is, essentially, a robot built out of a mobile phone. Unlike the mad Japanese transforming mobile phones I talked about last Thursday, this one is actually designed to be useful. And the cool part is that it works as a remote control robot, using GPRS! Check out some video footage of it in action:
Ok, it’s a bit jerky, it’s a bit clumsy, the camera doesn’t do live, real-time streaming, and it looks like its the result of a night of passion between a scutter and Johnny 5 out Short Circuit (although that actually makes it cuter…), but considering this was built ENTIRELY by hand, and he got it working by remote control over a GPRS connection on his own, and considering it just flat out rocks, I reckon it’s a good thing.
In fact, I can even see a use for it. A proper commercial, viable use. It’s made out of an old phone, a couple of electric motors, a couple of microchips, and bits of Lego, so it’s cheap. Which means you could happily blow it up without worrying about cost.
Am I the only one thinking “bomb disposal”?
The Sony Ericsson War-Machine-Killer-Bot can’t be far behind…
Or, to give it the name they want us to use Aibo 2…
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