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Dr. Robot Watches Over Home And More

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the intelligent-entertaining-security-systems dept.

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.

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  1. Re:But can it get a beer from the fridge? by Theodore+Logan · · Score: 3, Informative

    If not, it isn't worth the price tag.

    This is actually extremely cheap for a robot having this kind of functionality. The only equivalent product on the market (or soon on the market) is Sony's SDR-4X, which costs about 20x the price of this one. The SDR-4X can, however, sing in harmony, shake its hips and wave its arms in tempo. That's got to count for something.

    Or maybe Sony's CEO just had a joint too much.

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