Android and Pepper: a love story
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Pepper’s tablet becomes a true robot controller by tunneling Ethernet over USB + TCP so Android and Pepper share audio, mic beams and state; an Android service called robot service publishes activity changes and permissions, a focus object mediates control rights, audio uses Android Open Accessory streaming to route sound to Pepper’s head, and beamformed mics get preprocessed and sent over USB. The team ships an Android Studio plugin and an alpha SDK that runs actions (speech, motion, animations) and demonstrably works at scale.
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