Meet Patty, Microsoft’s Surface 2.0 stress test robot

Locked behind a gated fence and unseen by the general public in the past, lives Patty, Microsoft’s Surface 2.0 stress test robot. Designed to determine just how much Gates’ touchscreen can take, this lady bot uses 80 compressed air-driven probes, six motors and a robotic moving head to use maximum stress to the display. It really works as such: by giving Patty a command, engineers can move probes around the screen at 25 inches per second — mimicking the movement of fingers, hands and whatever else it may encounter IRL. With much multitasking , it’s no wonder she comes with a tremendous red emergency stop button — just in case. See Patty do her thing by hitting the source link below.

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