Two-Legged Home Robot, Coming Soon To Japan

An anonymous reader submits "Two Japanese companies, (ZMP corp., and Mizuno, a athletic goods manufacturer), announced that they will start selling the first two-legged robot for home use. The robot, called nuvo, will retail for 500,000 yen. It wil be able to understand 1,000 (Japanese) words, dance, and allow the owner to contact the robot via 3G phones."

Comments

Do they really need this?

[Anonymous Coward]

This will just foster more fascination with toys, as opposed to truly productive endeavors. For further examples, see any anime movie vs Hollywood classics, cartoon books versus truly great Western novels (Crime and Punishment, any Clavell novel, etc), karaoke bars and subway tubes to sleep off you hangover versus PTA and neighborhood associations, rampant adultery versus monogomy, bukkake vs Playboy, etc etc.

Something weird is going on over there.

In US $

[walmass]

JPY 500,000 = US $ 4,528 (approx.)

Sony was first!!!

[PCrazee]

Sony is allways first ;)

I've seen this about 4 or 5 month ago:

http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/QRIO

Robosapien?

[dahamsta]

Can't get much of an idea of scale from that photo, but it looks a lot like Mark Tilden's Robosapien, as previously reported on Slashdot. I guess the price would suggest it's a lot bigger, but Aibo ain't all that big and that's pretty expensive. :)

adam

Re:I can't read Japanese

[SirLantos]

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