‘Hawk’ Trainable Telepresence Robot
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Friday, 8 of May , 2009 at 5:10 am
If you feel like you’ve outgrown smaller hobby-class robots, it might be time to step up to Dr. Robot’s ‘Hawk’ mobile telepresence humanoid. Featuring an impressive suite of sensors including some kind of indoor GPS navigation (maybe this one, also used on the Rovio), Hawk’s most notable features are probably the 6 DoF arms with grippers. These can be controlled remotely, of course, but unlike most robots of this size and complexity, Hawk is trainable directly from a model: just move the model the way you want Hawk to move, and Hawk will duplicate the behavior and remember it. Video of that, after the jump.
There’s no price listed on the website, but with some of Dr. Robot’s smaller robots getting into the low five figures, I wouldn’t expect it to be anything close to cheap, although it would be interesting to see how it would compare to Anybots’ armless QA.
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Comment by Alex
Made Friday, 8 of May , 2009 at 7:20 am
Nice to see Dr.Robot doing some more humanoid-type robots. I’d like to see him post some videos of their earlier, smaller humanoids (they looked pretty cool). It’s hard to find images, let alone video of them since the last major demonstration was at Robodex years ago.
Comment by Ironman
Made Friday, 8 of May , 2009 at 11:25 am
I wish it was like 800 bucks.