How uses robots to test Android phones for lag

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Published 29 Jun 2015

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loves robots. It turns out one task the company has assigned to non-human subordinates is testing for interface lag in Android Chrome OS devices.

’s Francois Beaufort showed off a robot built by Finnish company OptoFidelity that poked prodded a Nexus 6.

You can check out these tests yourself if you want to see what is testing in more detail. As the video indicates, the robot can show the human observers how a line on a screen is actually a collection of segments that slowly fade into the foreground. 

y this matters: The Android experience can vary widely from one hset to another. Given how important Android Chrome are to ’s future it’s great to see such a unique high-tech approach to gauging performance. Now we know robots are part of the plan for what will hopefully be a very fast stable Android M.