Anyone have a Romo (Robot powered by iPhone)?

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Was watching TED this morning, and they have a talk by Keller Rinaudo called: A Robot Powered by your phone. I went to their web site (here) and it looks pretty cool. It’s definitely affordable at $150. Just wondering if any 'dopers have one, and what your thoughts are. How cool is it and how much do you use it? How easy is it to program, and what do you have yours do? It look like you can remotely control it via WiFi with any Apple device, so since I have both a Macbook and an iPad that should be no problem. Looks like you can stream video back from the phone mounted as the brain, which is cool as well in helping to pilot the thing around. Can you also record video? Can you speak through it or have the robot speak remotely?

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I went ahead and ordered one, but sadly they say it won’t be here until June. :frowning: Ah well, if anyone has any feedback on the things feel free to put your thoughts into the thread.

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It seems a little on the lame side. The only use case I can think of is remote monitoring. May have something to do with my lack of imagination, but their own website doesn’t have anything much better either. What’re you planning on doing with it?

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It’s a cool little thing to have, but it can’t play football for shit. I mean, it’s fine during the regular season, but eventually you’ll end up paying way too much just for it to fall apart once you really need it.

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Personally, if i were to get this, I could see me using it relentlessly for a couple of days, then throwing it in a cupboard and forgetting it.
In other words, It seems cool, but without any real practical uses.

By the way, was it just me or did anyone else note the promo video had some really bad ideas?
Get it to bring you coffee? Sure, if the cup and robot are both perfectly positioned - otherwise its just asking for a coffee-flavored carpet.
Sent it out and about in a busy place? (Vegas in the video) - only if you really want a flattened phone after someone steps on it and don’t get me started on what my dog/kids would do.