Awesome: iPhone App Created to Control Mars Rover [VIDEO]

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EclipseCon2010 participants were tasked with the challenge to "create the very best robotic control system to drive a robot across a prototypical Mars landscape" and to "prove [their] e4 programming skills by creating the very best e4-Rover client," according to the website.

We've embedded a video of a client made by software architects Peter Friese and Heiko Behrens below. They used the iPhone's accelerometer to run their creation. You can also check out the e4-Rover Mars Challenge page for more information on the winners and the contest itself.

Just think, if this idea were actually to come to fruition, you would have a whole new way to awkwardly avoid people at parties. I imagine it going something like this:

Party-goer 1: So... are you texting someone?

Party-goer 2: Uhh... no.

P1: E-mailing?

P2: Nope.

P1: FarmVille?

P2: I'm controlling the Mars rover.

P1: Oh...

P2: Yeah. It takes a lot of concentration, so...

P1: I'll just... leave you to that...

[via recombu.com]