Microbot Push Automates The Push Of A Button

When it comes to home automation, there are a number of routes you can take to automate the things around your home. You can get things like lamp controllers that will turn you lamps on and off and there are wirelessly controllable light switches for the wall. If you don't want to replace the light switches or have other things with buttons that you want to automate the Microbot Push will do the trick.

This device is essentially a wireless robotic finger that is designed to push your buttons for you. It's from a South Korean firm called Naran and is a low energy Bluetooth device intended for automation of switch based tasks.

The firm calls out its use for things like turning on light switches, turning on or off computers, or turning on and off anything else that has a button. Push is controlled via a smartphone app and the user can define a set of conditions that cause the switch to be activated.

That means you can set the device to turn on lights automatically when you walk in a room. The catch I see is that the design doesn't appear to work with the style of light switches we commonly have here in the US. It's also unclear how you attach the rather largish device to switches on things like coffee makers. Pricing and availability are unknown.

SOURCE: Motherboard