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 If you're more excited by robots than latte makers, you'll find this review of the Robosapien pretty interesting. While we here at StreetTech haven't got our hands on one of them yet, we were expecting it to be the best toy ever created. And after reading the review, we expect it to be the best toy ever. Start saving now -- only $100 gets you one, but when you see them dancing a chorus line, you'll want a whole gang of them.
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Re: Robosapian Reviewed!
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by tatertot on Jun 01, 2004 - 04:49 PM
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Do I detect a note of disdain? WATCH IT, BUDDY.
It's possible to lust both after frothy milky goodness and the Robosapien. I know this because I want a Robosapien badly. I want him to hold my latte frother, double my milk volume, then do a little dance before saying "UGHH!!!"
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Further research
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by heroines on Jun 02, 2004 - 06:55 PM
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As far as I can tell from the limited photos and movies, although it's conceptually amazing, in reality it's a bit more down to earth.
1) The legs aren't fully articulated legs capable of balancing. They move more like egg beaters and stay upright by weighing more than any other part.
2) The microprocessor only remembers programs for a few minutes and resets after a certain amount of inactivity. You could hack the remote control to take commands from a PC but that's a $109 remote.
3) It doesn't seem to have a revolutionary increase in the number of motion points. They've just found the points of motion which give the most human feel.
This would have been fascinating 20 years ago as a kid but now a robot needs to do real work to be worth the money. I need a robot which takes out the trash, checks the mail, mops the floor, and really washes the car instead of just spray it.
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Re: Robosapian Reviewed!
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by assneck on Jun 10, 2004 - 12:15 PM
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When Jack (my 5 year old robot co-builder) and I saw the first vids of RoboSapien it was like when you were a kid and the new Sears catalog would come and you would covet the go-karts and put dibs on them. We OBSESSED over it. He looked soooo cool, and the battery life was sooo amazing, an oh, he farted!!
We finally caught a glimpse/played with him at PDXbot.4, the robot competition/show here in Portland. If there is such a thing as "very mediocre" that would have to be my assessment. The unit we saw had a failing remote first of all. Second of all, it had little to no onboard intelligence or behaviors. One would think that being a Tilden creation it would have some sort of "biological" aspect, but alas, it is just routines you program from the remote. If it had any autonomy what so ever I would be all over it, but in the end, it's just runs routines. What a huge disappointment. I think I will just continue saving for that Aibo, or try and find the interactive R2D2 on ebay.
-Rock
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