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Hardware 2011

SkyTanX

I built a telepresence robot you drive over Skype - call the robot for its live video/audio feed, then steer it with typed commands or a vision-based virtual joystick. No client-side setup beyond Skype.

  • Python
  • Skype API
  • Image Processing
  • Robotics
The SkyTanX telepresence robot
fig.21 - The SkyTanX telepresence robot

SkyTanX is a telepresence robot I built with Python and Skype. Call its Skype account and you get a video/audio feed from the robot’s camera. From there you either type commands or use a virtual joystick, driven by image processing, to steer it.

There’s no setup on the client side, so anyone with Skype can drive the robot.