Evolution of robot programming, towards the Ubiquitous Computing era

Abstract

We are now witnessing the beginning of Ubiquitous Computing era with the success of several start up to find early adopters among the general public for their home automation solutions through crow funding campaigns. We believe that in the near future, more and more people will come out with new ideas in relation with ubiquitous computing to make our daily life more and more easy. However, most of them face the challenge to manipulate electronics and to program microcontrollers in their early stage prototypes. Which is not easy for people without solid electronic manipulation background. Today we notice a lack for platforms that facilitates the development of Ubiquitous systems. New approaches helping programming microcontrollers have to be created. One of applications with high potential in ubiquitous computing is robotics. This paper applies the concept of ubiquitous computing for programming and controlling robots in an easy way taking examples of programming robots on the hardware and software level using Arduino and IOIO board.