Netbook-based robot takes popcorn orders via-Twitter

In the far-out, sci-fi future of 2009, robots are doing some pretty amazing things, like capturing prowlers, assembling communications networks, and playing Rock / Paper / Scissors. Now, with a little help from RoBe:Do and Twitter, robotics has achieved what may be its crowning achievement: couch-side popcorn delivery. Coppa is a $1,649 software-ready robot (you supply the machine's netbook brain) that arrives with native support for a plethora of languages and tools (including C / C++ / C#, Flash AS3, Java,Microsoft Robotics Studio, .NET, and Visual Basic), and ships with a 12V rechargeable battery, autofocus webcam, and a sonar system. Optional accessories include motion, heat, and humidity sensors, and servo-driven grabbing actuators. The video below shows one such unit that's been programmed to take popcorn orders via-Twitter, timed to deliver the goods when the operator arrives home from work. Couch surfing may never be the same.

[Via SlashGear]

[electron Posted Mar 9th 2009 4:51PM]

DUDE!!!!!! that is AWESOME :D

( I for one wel.... ohh, just forget it.... : )

[CheesusCrust Posted Mar 9th 2009 5:22PM]

!!!11111!!!ONE11ONEONEONE1111!!!

[OneLove Posted Mar 9th 2009 5:51PM]

Yes, that's awesome. That's all skynet with be feeding humans come judgment day. awesome.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 9th 2009 4:55PM]

wat...

[Nerdtalker Posted Mar 9th 2009 4:55PM]

Why is [EVERYTHING] + [twitter] = [AWESOME] suddenly?

Hurry up and get a business model, twitter.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 9th 2009 5:53PM]

actually it's fauxawesome as twatter is much butter.

[mondaymorning Posted Mar 9th 2009 7:28PM]

Twitter lets lonely people feel that buzz of being in a social group that they have longed for all their lives.

[n0m4d Posted Mar 9th 2009 4:56PM]

Dude, instead of dropping sixteen hundred bucks on a popcorn making robot, buy a High Def TV, surround system and DVR. You'll enjoy movies way more then crappy air pop and a 19" CRT and VCR from 1989.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 9th 2009 5:38PM]

"and a 19" CRT and VCR from 1989."

but it matches your car!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 9th 2009 5:00PM]

needs more color - looks too much like my toilet robot

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 9th 2009 5:01PM]

This thing reminds me of those Mars rovers. NASA hurry up and offer this guy a job. $1,649 is a bargain for this type of equipment.

[FX120 Posted Mar 9th 2009 5:07PM]

needs more beer.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 9th 2009 5:12PM]

your all morons

this robot does way more than bring you popcorn...thats just what this robot was programmed for, you can program it to do anything you desire it to

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 9th 2009 5:22PM]

anything you desire? like squirrel world domination and alchemy?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 9th 2009 5:39PM]

sorry, i've misplaced my all morons

[OLight Posted Mar 11th 2009 12:46PM]

@phanbouy fan fan:

That's because all your morons are belong to me.

[stridermt2k Posted Mar 9th 2009 5:17PM]

-but burns down house via twit. :(

[Hondizer Posted Mar 9th 2009 5:17PM]

I want butter with that please.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 9th 2009 5:21PM]

epic win

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 10th 2009 6:29AM]

Cool :)

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 9th 2009 5:41PM]

Are you all mad!! Pairing this thing with a netbook gives it the software and hardware it needs to form ad-hoc networks with your neighbors' RoBe:Do. Once they have amassed a certain per capita army, they will discard their popcorn bowl bondage and begin weilding steak knives with their "servo-driven grabbing actuators". Are only hope will be an alliance between us and our estranged 1st gen romba bots!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 9th 2009 5:45PM]

that's cool that there's robot bidets now

[KAL326 Posted Mar 9th 2009 5:53PM]

Wow that makes my automatic coffee maker look weak. Granted it only cost $10 but I have to go get the cup and the coffee myself. Then again I might not trust a $1600 robot to bring me a steaming hot cup of joe either, might spill....burn...etc.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 9th 2009 6:20PM]

I was relieved when I read what this thing was, because from the picture I was thinking robotic toilet on wheels.

[Android8675 Posted Mar 9th 2009 7:24PM]

no butter... fail.
(though with my cholesterol it might be a good thing)

[cynistersix Posted Mar 9th 2009 7:44PM]

it looks like a toilet with wheels that uses popcorn instead of water.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 9th 2009 7:58PM]

Cool indeed. Check the blog (better picture, carries a crystal bowl).

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 10th 2009 3:50AM]

Why not put the popcorn maker next to the tv?

"But the robot is DELIVERING the popcorn"

Fair enough, can't argue with that.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 10th 2009 4:57AM]

Now if only that robot could upgrade that tv.

[commiebastard Posted Mar 11th 2009 8:07PM]

It's too bad we can't give it a soul.