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ER1 Personal Robot Reviewed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the quite-a-christmas-present dept.

Makarand writes "The Mercury News is carrying a review of the ER1 Personal Robot from Evolution Robotics Inc (of Pasadena, CA). The ER1 resembles neither a dog nor any robot in sci-fi movies. It is a 3-wheeled platform (resembling an industrial table) holding a laptop (running Windows) for its brains and a Web camera for its eye. The ER1 sells at $600 (laptop not included). For an extra $100 you get a completely assembled ER1. Evolution plans to sell expansions like grippers and infrared sensors in the future. If your laptop is Wi-Fi capable you can drive the robot around inside your home or control it using the Internet from anywhere."

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  1. Available for $499.61 from Tiger by X86Daddy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Tiger has the kit version here.

  2. Re:Armor and a weapon... by tjwhaynes · · Score: 3, Informative

    Lets add armor and weapons to these things and we got autonomous robot wars! Personally, I've always wished that those robot-battle type shows on tv were autonomous instead of remote controlled. Now THAT would be a challenge.

    If you're short of spare parts, you could do worse than muck around with a virtual equivalent.

    Cheers,

    Toby Haynes

    --
    Anything I post is strictly my own thoughts and doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the opinions of IBM.
  3. If you like robots.... by g00bd0g · · Score: 3, Informative

    Check out these guys http://www.lynxmotion.com
    Personally I like this one http://www.lynxmotion.com/images/jpg/pballs.jpg