For those of us who can’t hire, or even borrow, a cameraperson for our videos.

Just a prototype right now, but an excellent example of what will be coming in the future. This would be a boon to any new media producer.

From the video description…

This video is my submission to Microsoft’s Robotics@Home Competition. I developed a robotic video tripod which I call the “SmartTripod”. It runs on a Parallax Eddie robot and Microsoft’s Robotics Developer Studio (RDS). There is another video on my channel which is kind of an “appendix” to this one–it contains a cooking video I created to demonstrate the capabiliites of the SmartTripod. You can find that video here: http://youtu.be/rhmcqUx4PHI

Here is the cooking video he developed as a demo…