Robosapien V2 Review - with Video

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday August 9, 2006 @06:19AM from the because-someone-to-bowl-for-me-is-a-priority dept.

Turismo writes "Ars Technica reviews the Robosapien V2, a two foot tall robot that can lie down, stand up, laugh, taunt, and bowl. From the article: 'The press release promises that he can bowl. Place the green plastic ball in his articulated fingers and the Robosapien V2 should grab it, wind up, and let the ball fly. He does grab the ball and he does wind up, and the first time you see it, you think your life might be about change. Now that robots can bowl, you think, it's only a matter of time before they can cook my breakfast, too.' Unfortunately, that day is still some ways off."

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Robots *can* cook breakfast by Eric+Smith · 2006-08-09 06:21 · Score: 2, Interesting

I'd be entirely happy to sell you a robot that can cook a breakfast for you. No big deal. It won't *serve* the breakfast, but it will definitely cook it.
Old News by refitman · 2006-08-09 06:29 · Score: 4, Interesting

The company I work for had these on sale for christmas 2005: http://www.maplin.co.uk/StoresRoboV2.asp.

How has this made it to the front page almost 9 months later?

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