Dr. Robot Watches Over Home And More

jverbov writes "A Canadian firm has created what they call an 'intellgent personal robotic companion.' It can be wirelessly connected to your home Internet connection, has a built-in camera and speech recognition software. There's a recent article about it at the Toronto Star." This thing promises a lot, and while the price is steep, it's a lot cheaper than some other household robots due out.

Comments

And other peoples wireless internet ?

[MosesJones]

A whole new way of having fun, send your personal robot onto the streets to War-chalk for you.

"I didn't do it officer, you just can't trust robots these days"

Re:Won't fly high.

[HorrorIsland]

Since it's canadian, it won't have a built-in gun, thus removing much of whatever appeal it may have for gun-crazy yankees.

Are you kidding? It'd make a great target!

I dunno...

[lingqi]

If my kids are going to be anything like the kids that I hope they will be, they will:

1) Jam the Robot's wireless frequency
2) Hack the firmware and play a loop-back video of them doing homework.
3) Rewrite AI in Aibo and the robot to deathmatch mode and take bets.
etc

but realistically, kids will probabbly

1) knock robot down with chair, accidentally or otherwise
2) sit on it, accidentally or otherwise
3) spray ketchup onto it, accidentally or otherwise
4) go swimming with it, accidentally or otherwise
you get the idea

either way - to make a robot "kids proof" is a tall order - i am not sure if this flimsy looking thing fills it.

Dr. Robot?

[Wakko Warner]

You know times are tough when you need a doctoral degree simply to be an evil robot slave.

- A.P.