Tuesday, 5 August 2008

We met the cutest robot ever: iRobot's vacuum cleaner. Even though it's supposed to suck, we loved it anyway and ended up getting to know it for the rest of the day.

The vacuum cleaning portion has been removed, leaving the gaping rectangular hole on top which you can see. This was where we stuffed the dry cells that powered each machine.

We were introduced to another small adorable gadget, the ASUS Eee PC which helped us manipulate the playful little vacuum cleaner.

Using software beyond my comprehension, we tracked coloured balls as they whizzed around the scope of the computer's camera and located their centres of gravity. Using such sensory input and stuff, we could potentially program the vacuum cleaner to chase balls of a certain hue.