Linux-powered Robots From France? Oui!

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday July 20, 2006 @02:01AM from the hobart-college-dept-of-egnineering dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A French start-up created to build autonomous, easily programmable, affordable humanoid robots expects to ship its first product — a humanoid household service robot running Linux — in early 2007. The walking, talking, WiFi-enabled Nao household robot will stand 21.6 inches tall, and will feature 23 "degrees of freedom" of motion — three more than the 14-inch tall Choromet android announced earlier this week by four Japanese companies. Nao's extra degrees of freedom appear to come in the form of gripping hands."

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Re:obligatory by Timesprout · 2006-07-20 02:10 · Score: 0, Troll

Not if they make them like their tanks, 5 reverse gears and one foward gear incase they are attacked from the rear.

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I for one by TheConfusedOne · 2006-07-20 02:26 · Score: 0, Troll

welcome our new surrendering robotic overlords.

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Re:obligatory by ElementCDN · 2006-07-20 03:00 · Score: 0, Troll

Now they will have robots to do their surendering.