Experimental Google Smartphone Becomes Brain Of Space Robot

SPHERES Research engineer D.W. Wheeler and Terry Fong, NASA's director of the Intelligent Robotics Group, flank the SPHERES utility robot with the Project Tango smartphone mounted on the side. Andrew Rosenblum Robots excel at the tedious, repetitive tasks that bore humans into ineffectiveness. So NASA has tweaked an experimental Google smartphone called "Project Tango" that takes 250,000 measurements per second to create a 3-D map of the environment. The hacked version of Project Tango will help...