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Fujitsu's HOAP-3, Programmable Linux robot

Posted by timothy on from the hoap-to-it dept.

zmcnulty writes "Fujitsu Automation announced their "HOAP-3" robot yesterday, a 60cm (24in.) robot with a dash of open-source goodness. The robot contains a Pentium M 1.1GHz processor and runs RT-Linux, but Fujitsu also said they'll be releasing the internal interface info for programmers to take a stab at. The original Japanese press release is available here, and at my site we have a translation of the Japanese ITmedia article covering it. No price until it actually hits stores."

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  1. Voice synthesis by ch-chuck · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "Help! I've fallen and I can't get up!!"

    Actually pretty cool toy - wonder what the battery life is. "Command override: I must find a power source in 3.23 minutes beep".

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  2. Merge! by Sierpinski · · Score: 2, Interesting

    We just need to merge this robot with an "outer skin" like that from the RealDoll!

    Wonder how long the backorder list would be for something like that...

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