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Personal Robots From Valley Startup

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i'll-believe-it-when-it's-cooking-me-dinner dept.

Tjeerd writes ""A Silicon Valley start-up is developing a hardware and software development platform for personal-assistant robots, autonomous boats and unmanned cars. The privately funded company, quietly started almost a year ago by eGroups founder and veteran Google architect Scott Hassan, plans to make its robotics software open source. That way, it hopes to draw a community of developers to build applications in these respective fields.""

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  1. Great start by Muad'Dave · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Cool. Great start. Call me when you have 'bots that can:

    • Load the dishwasher
    • Empty the cat litter
    • Feed the cats
    • Let the dogs in/out
    • Feed the dogs
    • Do laundry
    • Clean gutters
    • etc

    The vacuuming 'bots are cool, but there's so much more they'll need to do before they're really integrated, Jetson's-style.

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