Robotics is a challenge and guys have taken it on them to get theingenuity of the bots to interpret the world of social networking tous. Clubbing a robot to get some mechanical touch to the wordy messageswe read across our Twitter profile, a developer has got the GuardianRobot to our desks. The cute little fellow standing on your tabledoesn’t reply to your tweets, however, it is a great companion whounderstands the happy and sad emotions of your friend’s tweets and thenreading them through a specially designed program, responds back.

Therobot raises its head and arm in triumph, in case of a happy messageand waits for a high-5 from you, which is possible by pushing theswitch in its raised hand. The robot, however, lowers its head indespair when the message it reads is sad and only cheers up with a hugfrom you. Video after the jump.

Connected to the Arduino board which is connectedto a computer via USB, the robot is made using a servo to rotate thearm, with another to lower the head. The bot’s belly has a microswitchto detect hugs and another on the hand to detect high-5s. Aninteresting concept indeed, the bot can be programmed further for someother routines, including replying to the tweets, that’ll make theentire social scenario more mechanically exciting.