Roboy nears completion

Roboy is a messenger of a new generation of robots that will be friendly and interact with people.  It aims to promote a positive message about the possibilities of human/robot interactivity.  The robot is in development; and has a skeletal-like body with arms, legs, spine and head.  The robot has been crowd-funded and is being put together in less than a year.  By March the research team hope to have completed Roboy and given him the possibility of riding a tricycle.  The key architect of the project, Professor Rolf Pfeifer talks to Click about the development of Roboy.

(Photo credit: Roboy.org)

Smart phones are increasingly touch-screen based.  They are not yet ubiquitous.  But as well as those who are never going to be able to afford to buy such a phone, spare a thought for the visually impaired who will never find them useful.  That was the idea that drove Sumit Dagar to bring together a team to develop a braille smart phone for people with visual impairments.  Sumit Dagar joins Click to discuss the challenge of creating such a phone.

(Photo credit: Sumit Dagar)