iBot – Virtual Social Robot for iPhone/iPad/iPod
// August 20th, 2010 // No Comments » // organic media, Technology, Thirdimension, Ubiquitous Computing
We recently at Dsign Interactive Systems + SquareCube LLC worked on interactive virtual social robot.
The robot reacts to touch drag gestures on the iPhone. It also reacts to accelerometer. In a way the robot
has a sense of where you are touching it and also gravity up to certain extent.
This is what we call “Bridging Humans and Virtual Agents” or “Humanizing Technology” in simple terms 
In future versions we are planning to create a concept of time and space taking it to a level of creating
a virtual world for the robot. So that it can move around and do more Human actions. And we mean to
spread awareness in human actions by making spotty behave more humanly.
Coming from India and dealing with actions, the word that penetrates my mind, body and soul is “KARMA.”
I wrote Karma algorithm to reward and punish based on the actions of the user. This way we are trying to bridge the gap
between humans and virtual bot. Also we have named the bot “Spotty” 
iPad version will be released soon too.
Here is the glimpse,
Credits:
Yangos Hadjiyannas – Creative Director
Mckane Lee – Digital Consultant and Animator
Dhruv Adhia – Technical Director and Programmer
Love & Peace,
Dhruv Adhia
