RoboSapiens 2: bigger pictures

Bigger picture of the robosapiens 2 and its box have surfaced on the internet: Go HERE

The best hacking site about the robosapiens are definitively:

• www.evosapien.com
• http://robosapien.tk/
  

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Robosapiens 2 available in sept. 2005?

List of functionnalities:

• Multiple levels of environmental interaction, with humans and objects; sight, sound and touch senses.
• Humanoid body movements, including bending sitting and standing, lying down and getting up, waving, martial arts...
• A color vision system: recognize colors and skin tones; which wil help him interacts with objects and people.
• IR vision: detects and avoids obstacles and table edges; tracks moving objects.
• Speech: through the controller or after detection of sensors
• "Laser" tracking technology: follows a path traced on the ground.
• New Precision gripping hands, articulated fingers.
• Stereo sound system and possibility to program reaction to sounds detection.
• Realistic 2-axis turning head with animated LED eyes.
• Interacts with, and can controls, 2 others robots: Robopet and Roboraptor
• Sleep and auto-shut off functions.
• 100 pre-strore functions.
• 4 demo modes and 4 programming modes.
• Controller or direct, positional programming.
• Remote control and autonomous behavior modes.

Expected price tag: $200

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too lazy for cleaning the floor?

You can see HERE some floor cleaning and sweeping robots  And HERE some robots that can take care of the lawn In the biggest category, do not forget to look also at  the giant forest-walking spider robot by John Deere.

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Robosapiens 2 presentation during CES 2005

Robotic physicist Mark Tilden has release its second version of robotsapiens (price tag around 200$). It can now control 2 others robot (Robotpet and Roboraptor), can follow a laser line, recognize with his color camera persons and environment...
Official Homepage Woowee
Pictures of the prototype on Solarbotics.net

Robosapiens ($200)

• PcMag
• Engadget
• Typepad
• Onrobo

Robopet ($70)

• PcMag

Roboraptor ($100)

• PcMag

Soon someone will have to enter the 3 robotics laws in their silicon brain for sure:

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

• Even better, the toy is highly hackable see here and here ...
• The top of the line walking robots are also visible (videos+pictures)on this great site  http://www.plyojump.com/index.html
  

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