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Korean Bipedal Robot Kit

Posted by michael on Friday July 9, 2004 @08:21AM from the wow-robot dept.

The Black Dragon writes "This has got to be the coolest thing I've seen in a while. It's a bipedal (walks on two legs) robot that you can put together yourself and program with movements. The site is in Korean, but from what I've been able to get from translators and currency exchange, it'll cost about $1,400. (There's a movie embedded half way down.)" Gizmodo has a blurb.

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Re:Most awesome robot EVER... by DeepDarkSky · 2004-07-09 08:33 · Score: 5, Insightful

When you consider things like Segway costing thousands, and video cards costing $400-$500 and high-end MP3 players at $500+, $1400 is not all that much more. Think of it a different way...5 years ago, you'd pay $2500 for a PII...