White Box Robotics has an amazing robot platform coming out this summer (hopefully) called the 912. It runs on a mini-itx PC board running Windows XP, can be outfitted with an internal 5″ lcd screen and head-mounted display, and can be programmed to follow you around playing MP3s. Pictured is the “security bot” model. Price of the base model should be “about the same as a decent PC” which means probably between $2000 and $3000.
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