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The world’s smallest two-legged walking robot, i-Sobot!

The i-Sobot by Tommy is the world’s smallest 2-legged humanoid robot, which was just unveiled on Tuesday. The little bot is only 6 inches tall and weighs 12.3 ounces. It has 17 actuators to help it move and a gyro-sensor to keep its balance. Its skills include walking and playing the drums.

Its size is small enough to fit in a lunch box, easy for you to bring along anywhere. It will keep you accompanied and amused. Perhaps when you’ve got too bored with your work, take a break, take out this little cute bot and it will surely keep you amused by dancing along with music, playing drums and doing push-ups. It knows how to pick itself up when it falls.

The i-Sobot will retail around $260.00. Availability: July, 2007

Source: News.com

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Housewives, secret of luring your men into vacuum-cleaning for you

This is the secret that I’d like to share to all the housewives, i.e how to lure your men or kids into vacuuming the entire house for you, so you can just sit back and relax. The Track Vac Robotic Vacuum, works like a regular robot vacumm, part toy, part vacuum and RF remote-controlled. It comes with official NASCAR graphics and a “Pit Road” charging station, sure, your man or kids will be so excited doing the vacuuming for you!

$279.95 at HollywoodForces

Via UberGizmo

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Spyke, what a clumsy robot-like watchdog for your home! Do you need one?

No! Spyke, just a big-size and clumsy robot-like gizmo, which it has no great speed and mobility of advanced robots. It cannot traverse stairs and uneven terrain! Perhaps, you can just leave it in your living room or bedroom, well as your watchdog.

But I do not like the idea of leaving this big-size, clumsy robot-like gizmo in my house, which will take up quite lot of space. Spyke is only the functions of video camera, loudspeaker, microphone, VOIP and digital music player combined into a robot-like gizmo. It’s controllable from a computer via WiFi or through Internet.

Well, some might like the idea of having it as a watchdog for your home when you are away, as its built-in camera will email you snapshots once a motion is detected. (Maybe that was your kitten). Furthermore, if you like to have VOIP chat using Skype, MSN, Google Talk with your loved one via a robot-like gizmo, then perhaps it’s not a bad idea to keep one at home.

It’s now in its prototype, by Erector, still having bugs. The prototype failed to return to its recharging dock automatically. You won’t see a release until the end of June.The Spyke would be priced around $270 (250 Euro) when launched. What do you expect for a price like that ?

Via UberGizmo

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Palmsize micro copter, fun to fly it!

This palmsize micro copter is an amusing gadget toy to keep at your workplace or home. Perhaps when you get too tired of working, video-gaming or net surfing and wanna take break, then you can enjoy flying this mini copter. It’s fun to fly it and watching it take off from your hand.

According to the product page, flying this mini copter needs some of those twitchy video game skills you’ve been perfecting on FPS shooters. But once you get the knack of it you won’t be able to stop zooming it around your office or home. It’s Infrared remote-controlled.

$39.99 at ThinkGeek

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Robotic cellphone! A personal ubiquitous companion!

Do you want your cellphone to come to you by itself when someone calls you? Do you want your cellphone to know where to locate its own charger and then charge itself when battery runs out? The Cellular Phone Robot does all these for you.

The Cellular Phone Robot or CPR in short has wheels so that it can move. With RFID tags installed all around your house, it will be able to do the above-mentioned for you! Some more it has motors, used to express the emotions for you about the incoming calls. The CPR uses 3 types of senses to respond to you, they are by touch, smell and visual bahavior!

By touch, the CPR vibrates in 3 distinct patterns to evoke your emotional response. The patterns were based on the rhythms of emotional music.

By smell, it has 12 micronozzles to to emit just the right odor to identify the caller. Would it emit smell of rotton egg for undesirable callers? Of course tested biometrically.

By visual, the CPR does a little dance when someone calls. Happy dance. Stalker dance. All biometrically determined.

This is currently one of the research work produced by the engineers at Soochunhyang University in Korea. It has much much greater features than your iPhone.

[Via Robotgossip]

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Robots may have rights one day

Robots with human-like intelligence, may have thier rights one day. Rights such as votes and equal protection will be extended to them, maybe.

A conscious robot would want to have rights. It sounds like the movie “Terminator“. Would it result one day that robots even want more rights and power and even want to rule the world?

Via playfuls.com

Riddle! A smart bunny that is always there to help you!

Riddle:A little smart bunny that can wake you up, tell you the time, report about the latest news, weather forecast, traffic, stock market, air quality and even alert you for incoming emails and GoogleTalk messages.

Answer:

The Nabaztag/tag rabbit by Violet, also known as the “Wi-Fi rabbit” or “wireless bunny” is a device that connects directly to the Internet through Wi-Fi ! It has ability to do things like speak, sing, read text and move its ears. The Nabaztag can use its features to display news, alerts, stock updates, weather reports and exchange messages

Priced at only $189.00 at Dynamism

Christmas Gift for housewives, iRobot Scooba 5900 Floor Washing Robot

iRobot Scooba 5900 Floor Washing Robot

The best gift for your wife or mum for this coming Christmas. With this robotic floor washing robot, housewives can just sit down and relax after having a heavy Christmas party.

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