A company called Tapster makes robots that can test out mobile phones before they go to production. Here’s the $750 Tapster robot, designed by Jason Huggins. It allows you to test out interactions on real mobile devices by simulating a human finger on a touchscreen.
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Here’s how Tapster 2 links up to your computer.
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Here are two Tapster robots playing “Heart and Soul” in GarageBand on an iPhone 6.
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Here’s an earlier version of Tapster, called “Bitbeambot,” playing Angry Birds on an iPad. It’s made from an open source 3D-printable Lego-Technic compatible building toy called bitbeam, and was originally created to play Angry Birds.
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Here’s Tapster 2, the newer model, playing Angry Birds at AppWorld.
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The newest mobile device testing robot in the lineup is called “Tapster Sidekick.”
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Here’s Tapster Sidekick in action, launching the Android bootloader on a Nexus 5X.
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Here are the inner workings of Tapster Sidekick.
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Here’s another robot project: Dancebot. Huggins is also working with Guinness World Records to try to break the record for “Most robots dancing simultaneously.”
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Hope Reese is a writer based in Louisville, Kentucky, currently living in Budapest. Her work has appeared in the Atlantic, the Boston Globe, Vox, Vice and other publications.
