Chubby Dragon May Not Be The Best Security Robot
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Thursday, 12 of March , 2009 at 12:58 am
This “Guard Dragon” robot, the Banryu-T73S, was designed by Tmsuk back in in 2003. That’s ancient times in internet years, so I’m just going to have to say that according to sources of information that may now be defunct, the T73S was supposed to be kind of like an Aibo, except a dragon instead of a dog, and designed to guard your house instead of play with you. Because dragons are scary. This robot is scaring you, isn’t it? Isn’t it? I mean, it’s chubby. What if it steps on your toe?
Fortunately, it does plenty more than look threatening. It has more than 50 built-in sensors for things like light, sound, temperature, and even odor. It can be teleoperated and functions like an answering machine. It even has a special “pets mode” to entertain your dog (good luck with that). 12 degrees of freedom enable it to walk around and wag its tail, and it stands nearly 3 feet tall and weighs 77 pounds. It does not appear to be able to breathe fire (sad), and cost some $18000 back when it was new. Only 50 were made, though, so good luck finding one to guard your house today.
[ Tmsuk T73S ]
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