Keller Rinaudo-A mini robot-powered by your phone

This ted talk by Keller Rinaudo is about a robot which can easily be used by anyone of any age. The name of the robot is Romo.It uses a device that we are already really familiar with is Iphone as his brain. The robot is wifi enabled and computer vision capable of just 150 bucks, which is just 1% of what these kinds of robots have cost in past.

Romo

Romo is very friendly and cute and he uses the video camera on device to follow the user's phone so whatever the user will do he will follow it. And if someone wants to explore the world with Romo, I can actually connect him from any other iOS device. So here's the iPad. And Romo will actually stream video to this device. So the person can see everything that Romo sees, and the user will get a robot's-eye-view of the world. 

The most important thing about Romo is that it is really perceptive as you actually don't have to be actually present at the same geographical location as robot to control it actually streams two-way audio and video between any two smart devices. So you can log in through the browser, and it's kind of like Skype on wheels. So it's basically the concept of telepresence.For instance an eight-year-old girl,  who has an iPhone, and her mom buys her a robot. That girl can take her iPhone, put it on the robot, and send an email to Grandmother, who lives on the other side of the country. Grandmother can log into that robot and play hide-and-go-seek with her granddaughter for fifteen minutes every single night, when otherwise she might only be able to get to see her granddaughter once or twice a year.

The reason behind choosing this ted talk is that it talks about the future of personal robotics which is happening today and we need to know the importance of personal robots so Romo is one of the best examples of it.

By having a Romo  one will be able to do whatever he or she have ever wished for like dancing like a pro, building something through it we just have to download that on Romo and execute it in real life and we can also share it easily with every other person who own a robot in the world. So for having a personal robot we don't have to spend millions it will just cost 150 bucks and one will end up with a personal robot at their home.

Another reason of choosing this ted talk was that I love robots and I am really looking forward to have my own Romo!!!
Link to the Ted talk
https://www.ted.com/talks/keller_rinaudo_a_mini_robot_powered_by_your_phone?language=en