Have you folks seen this guy yet? He's a robot that they sell at Radioshack and Circuit City for around $250. He can walk, talk, use his hands, detect objects and colors, and he's capable of performing a bunch of nifty tricks and whatnot. For instance, he can go bowling... you set bowling pins in front of him, then hold his little green bowling ball in front of his face. He'll see the ball, say "hey, that's my ball!", and stick his hand out asking for it. If you give it to him, he'll look around, find the bowling pins, calculate trajectory, and throw the ball. On a hard, non-carpeted floor, he can actually knock the pins down. And he's got tons of programmable features and button combinations that you can use to have him do everything from passing gas to bumming for change to hitting on chicks... this thing is awesome and if you haven't seen it yet, I figured I'd
show him to you at this link . Neat, huh? He dances, too. Even cooler is that he can fully interact with other robots (another robosapien, a roboraptor, or a robopet). for instance, if he's hanging out with a robopet, he'll ask it to lie down, play dead, etc., and if the dog misbehaves, Robosapien will yell at him
Awesome.
Okay, there's some bad things. If he falls on his face, he can't get back up (although if laying on his back he can lift himself from the ground). While his controls are seemingly endless at first, the really fun ones can get old fairly quick. Still, I'd pay $250 for him if I had that sort of money to blow.
This post was fairly stupid, but this thing rocks so I figured I'd enlighten you all to it
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