Sony’s QRIO (pronounced “curio”) was originally designed to be a bipedal humanoid entertainment robot to be released as a commercial product following the huge success of the little dog Aibo. QRIO 1’s slogan was “Makes life fun, makes you happy!” Standing approximately 2 feet tall and having the battery power to last for one hour, it [...]
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The Roomba is the commercial name for the robotic vacuum cleaner made and sold by a company called iRobot. The first Roomba unit was released in 2002 with updates and new models released every year since then. As of January of this year (2008), over 2.5 million of these robots have been sold.
The Roomba runs [...]
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The uncanny valley is definitely avoided in this latest gadget currently being developed by Toshiba. The cuteness factor exceeds most people’s expectations and also psychologically imparts a kind of implied subservience through the use of its oversized eyes and adorable computerized voice. This robot’s name is ApriPoco:
The ApriPoco (the name being derived from [...]
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