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Sanyo Announces "Banryu" Home Security Robot

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the insert-mecha-godzilla-joke-here dept.

Fooferaw writes "From the Sanyo web site: Sanyo and smaller tmsuk announce the next version of their "Banryu" home robot shaped somewhat like a dragon (it has the shiny curves of an AIBO, IMO). The Banryu can walk 15m/min., hear, sense in the infrared, and apparently "smell" a fire in the home. It even transmit real-time video." Corrected: The title initially said Sharp...I must have Zaurus on the brain.

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  1. Sharp or Sanyo by Syn+Ack · · Score: 4, Informative


    Hrm, why does the headline read Sharp but the product is from Sanyo?

  2. Big sucker by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative


    1000mm? That's over 3 feet long.

  3. Shouldn't... by offpath3 · · Score: 2, Informative

    the headline read Sanyo?

    Sanyo is a darned good company, though. They're a huge competitor to Panasonic and if I remember correctly, they were doing better than Panasonic on home appliances in Japan, but just don't have enough name recognition overseas. I got to take a tour of one of their R&D headquarters in Osaka over the summer, and I must say, they've got some really cool stuff in very thin, high resolution displays in the works. Hopefully this new robot will get them some of the name recognition they need outside of Japan.