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Hacking the RoboSapien

Posted by michael on from the t-1000 dept.

unassimilatible writes "The RoboSapien is a cool humanoid robot toy with pretty decent dexterity and 67 pre-programmed instructions. But the folks at The University of Freiberg have made the RoboSapien autonomous by installing a Pocket PC to its head. The Pocket PC is equipped with a camera and communicates via infrared to the robot, and the whole monstrosity can be programmed with Visual C++. The full API is available for download. I, for one, welcome..."

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  1. Re:Mod article as unfair! by servognome · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You can always go to plan B and:
    1. Get robot toy
    2. ???
    3. Profit!
    Sorry, saturday night drinking + /.

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