But just what is Tipron and what can this little clear, crisp image that is always level. All of this
guy do? Tipron is a home (I'll touch on this a little would make Tipron a fantastic piece of kit, but
later) that can automatically project an 80 inch the thing that blew people away was Tipron
screen wherever you want. But where Tipron seemingly working on his own. To be fair, Tipron
brings the magic is it being smart enabled, which isn't that smart, but he sure seems that way
makes sense as Cerevo is a smart focused when you first meet him.
company. Tipron (or Tippy as we've dubbed him)
can move about freely on his own and project all This all works because you can pre-program
sorts of content on any surface you want. Tipron via the app. When Tipron is docked you
can open up the app and hit the program tab. The
Tipron's ball-like head can move all around so app will then instruct you to take control of
that he can project an image on a wall, the Tipron and set him up wherever you want. For us
ceiling, the floor, side of a desk and on and on. we piloted him from his dock in the hallway into
For those tech heads Tipron the movement the open meeting area. You then send him back
IT ' S HARD TO SEE TIPRON ROLLING ABOUT AND NOT
THINK IT ' S ONE OF THE COOLEST ROBOTS AROUND
specs are: up/down (pitch axis) -35/+90 degrees, home and the process is complete. You can then
left/right (yaw axis) ±90 degrees, rotation (roll simply tap the program and Tipron will carry out
axis) ±90 degrees. You control Tipron via the your orders. Even cooler is that you can set this
connected app (we used it on Android) and can on a timer and have Tipron meet you someplace.
control him with some pretty robust controls.
Aside from the basic movement controls that are This is really cool as I setup Tipron to
quick and responsive, you also have a suite of automatically move for the meeting room at
camera controls that managed to surprise me. 8:45AM and fire up my favorite YouTube playlist
of music. So when I walked in at 9:00AM Tipron
You can manually tilt the camera all sorts of was already grooving out and helping us get the
ways including pulling and pushing edges and day started with a fun kick. Now, the speaker
focusing and rotating. This means no matter that's built in is monaural so it's not going to give
where Tipron projects you can have yourself a a theater experience, but it gets the job done.