Breaking news: the first commercial drone will fly over American soil. But that’s not what I want to talk about. Pretty soon, our whole social media may be controlled by robots like drones.
This is where Fatdoor comes in. Their goal is to combine social media and robots. For example, you throw a house party. Instead of taking pictures of it with your smartphone, you can call a drone/robot to take pictures for you. Or you can have this robot deliver your food. The robot is called Bot Appetit. It walks among our streets. It’s connected to Fatdoor and controlled by your smartphone device. Think of it as bike without a biker. Also connected to Fatdoor is Skytedoor. That’s the drone with two cameras to stream videos on Fatdoor’s network. I forgot: They don’t want you to call it drone. They prefer to call it a skateboard.
The makers of Fatdoor hope to have Bot Appetit running in Silicon Valley before the end of 2014. I’m sure it will catch on with many. This is what I’m cool with. I have great reservations about Skytedoor. It’s creepy enough someone can take a picture with their device and place it on social media, whether you approve or not. Now we’ve got drones…I meant skateboards with two cameras snapping away? And what if there’s a malfunction? Are we giving robots too much power, or have I been watching too much 80s science fiction movies?