Windows Mobile gives humanoid new life

[Colin Dunstan]

It's not the first time in the wacky world of modern robotics that someone hacked new life into toy robot RoboSapien. Nonetheless, Neil did quite some impressive stuff with his humanoid robot by hooking it up to his Samsung I700 smartphone.

In a nutshell, you can control, see, hear, and talk through the Robosapien from any place or distance via TCP/IP over a cellular network. The Robosapien's robotics are functional, refined, and (most importantly) already assembled. Remote control, eye and brain hardware functions are provided by a Samsung I700 smart phone using Verizon's cell service. An additional cell phone provides the Robosapien’s ears and mouth (using speakerphone).

Finally, my dream of owning a remotely-voice-controlled ball-moving robot is one step closer to reality.