Gadgetory

if getting up off the couch to grab a cold drink or beer is just far too difficult than I have the solution for you it's called a robo couch designed by students from the University of New South Wales in Australia let's go see if this is the future of couch surfing it might look like a regular couch but there's 100 kilograms steel chassis holds plenty of tech student engineer will Andrews lifted the lid to show us what's couched inside so underneath the couch we have four independently driven mekkin them wheels so each wheel has these 45-degree rubber rollers on it and by having four of these wheels independently driven we can make the couch move in any direction forwards backwards left and right turn on the spot or any combination of those inside the armrest we have a raspberry pi single board computer and a little wireless router so then we can plug in a game controller or a laptop and then talk to the Raspberry Pi and the raspberry pi will talk to the motor controller and make the couch drive where does a program coach fit in our future so we're going to build on top of its autonomous systems on top so we've got the base platform done there and so we can I use open source software from things like Ross now we can add things you can go and maybe you can text it might pick you up in the future it will know where it is and so hopefully that will make it more useful and maybe some of them might think it's cool and apply it mostly may be here and one cool things what's the coolest thing you've done with this so far so we took up for a road trip and we took it down to McDonald's drive-thru so we've got a couple of soft serves and a big mac turns out you can't drive and hold a soft serve but yeah it's been an adventure while we're not going to see this in our lounge rooms anytime soon the team is thought about making a robot fridge now that's really built for the couch potato