Tagged: Skippy

Technology and Social Media
6:00 am
Mon July 9, 2012

Skippy: Sun Valley’s Stone-Skipping Robot

Credit Eleven Inc.
Skippy

Web surfers from anywhere in the world can remotely skip a stone across a Sun Valley lake this week.  A robot controlled through a person’s computer keyboard and the Internet makes this possible. 

Skippy stands about three feet tall and two feet wide along the shore of a private, mountain lake near the Sun Valley resort. 

Daniel Murphy directs Interactive Production at ad agency, Eleven Inc.  The San Francisco firm designed, engineered, and built the robot. 

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