Soldiers to use Android tablet to steer iRobots

Daily Digest News ^ | October 12, 2014 | Christian de Looper,

[BenLurkin]

“We needed to invest in simplifying the control of the robots so that more people with less training can use them,” said Orin Hoffman, technical director for iRobot. “If you can play Angry Birds, you can operate a robot.”

The new app, called the uPoint MRC, essentially makes these robots easier control, maneuver and operate. The controls are intuitive and make operating the robot easy.

The system even integrates cloud and in-built Android features, users can share information to a number of different cloud platforms, both public and private. In fact, users can even share or stream information to Facebook or Twitter.

[UCANSEE2]

[pieceofthepuzzle]

If this happens and becomes a major part of battle, look for the first widespread development and use of EMP weapons, and then new technology to guard electronics from EMP etc. etc. Funny how despite all the technological advancements we've made, we live in a world in which beheadings still occur, and a virus that has only a single strand of RNA 19,000 bases long is killing human beings who have about 3 billion bases pairs of double stranded DNA in each cell.

[Zeppo]

I wonder what Ender has to say about this development...

[dfwgator]

[Brother Cracker]

The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot Full Album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXIjSuN6RpY

[CrazyIvan]

I just wish I could get my Droid to control my GoPro.

[PAR35]

Facebook enabled combat robots? Sounds like the ChiComs can easily hack them.

A really stupid idea, but not a surprise from the clowns in charge.

[montag813]

Does this app work with the developer robots that iRobot sells on its website?

[BenLurkin]

Yup!

[UCANSEE2]

Oddly enough, the entire I, ROBOT album by Alan Parson has been playing in my head since the moment I saw the thread first appear.