A Quick Review of VectorConnect
This week, I tried Vector Connect, an app developed by the Robots for Good initiative, a project by the Social Robotics Lab run by Prof…
Author’s note: The author wrote this article in July 2020. Since the publication, a detailed research paper describing how VectorConnect was implemented and how users used VectorConnect has been published in HRI 2021,March, 2021. If you are interested in details of VectorConnect, please read the linked paper.
This week, I tried Vector Connect, an app developed by the Robots for Good initiative, a project by the Social Robotics Lab run by Prof. Brian Scassellati at Yale University. This is a pretty cool app (probably the only Vector app that exists outside of the official one that was developed by Anki Inc.). On the left is a screenshot from the app. In summary, the app allows three different things:
The ability to control your Vector robot from the app. You can move the robot, raise its lift, move the head, play a wide variety of animations, and ask the robot to return to the charger.
The ability to start a video call with a friend. This is like Facetime on Apple phones, with the excepti…
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