So today I grabbed the content from my RSS feeds... and came upon something I havebeen really interested in for quite a while...
Enter Robosapien,the most affordable consumer biomorphic robot. An amazing piece of robotics developed byMark Tilden, a robot physicist who has a career path through NASA, DARPA, and JPL (LosAlamos Nat. Laboratory).
To the average person or consumer, he looks like a child's toy thatcan walk and talk and dance. But when you look at the amount oftechnology and science behind him, it is amazing. His battery efficientsmooth motions are controlled via an infrared controller that comes with him. Operatingwith 4 D batters, he can last up to 12+ hours (reported 20)!!! The average radio controlcar that weighs as much as him, can last 15 to 20 minutes on the same batteries.
What happens when a software developerhears about this amazing piece of work and buys one?
He thinks of creative ways to make the Robosapien do what he wantsit to do. So I'm not the only one to have thought of this, butI do think that when I come up with a creation.. it will be of equal value.
Maybe this is a way that I can spend my technology bonus I got this year? :)
