iPhone App Developed To Control NASA Robot 26
andylim writes "At EclipseCon 2010 attendees were challenged to create a robotic control system to drive a NASA-provided robot across a prototypical Mars landscape. To win the EclipseCon e4-rover Mars challenge, developers could either prove their e4 programming skills by creating the best e4-Rover client, or use an e4 client to operate the Rover through a series of tasks to collect points. Software architects Peter Friese and Heiko Behrens built an iPhone client for the EclipseCon challenge which controls the robot around NASA's Mars landscape using the iPhone's accelerometer."
Re:Got to give them credit for originality (Score:4, Informative)
Agreed. They won't have to. It can be loaded directly onto devices using the SDK. It doesn't need to be distributed in the traditional sense. They need the certs provided by Apple, which I assume they already have if it's working on an iPhone ;-)