Pet Care Robot Features Best Charging System Ever
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Thursday, 17 of September , 2009 at 1:45 am
You may have seen this Pet Care robot concept around the internetz in the last few days. It’s sort of interesting, and certainly weird looking, but what I really like is the innovative battery charging syste. Like many other robots, the Pet Care robot uses a dock that it can find by itself. The dock, however, is not for recharging the robot… It’s for recharging the robot’s battery packs, independently. So, instead of sitting at the dock and being useless when it runs out of batteries, the robot just goes over to the dock, swaps out a spent battery for fresh one, and keeps on going:
Good idea? Obviously. Will it ever happen? Well, it’s a concept, so it’s probably one of those things that turns out to be much more complicated than it looks.
Aside from that, the Pet Care robot is a general telepresence robot that is designed (conceptualized, rather) specifically to play with your dog. The robot features stereo vision and a little ball that is actually a robot itself, that can be controlled separately. The Pet Care robot can also guard your home for you, but unfortunately, it can’t do much more than alert you to an intruder. The designer says: “I would love to equip the robot with more weapon-like modules, such as tranquilizer gun and tazer gun, but unintentional trauma may occur.” Personally, I’d be willing to accept whatever risk would be involved if my snail robot would taze anyone who manages to break into my house.
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Comment by Joey1058
Made Saturday, 19 of September , 2009 at 9:09 am
A self-replacing battery system is one of those obvious “Why didn’t we think of that before?” things. Dumb design. Cool concept!
Comment by DriesDD
Made Saturday, 26 of September , 2009 at 3:39 am
This automatic replacing battery system is not the first one. Better Place’s electric concept cars have them too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8nTAjVaa7Y
They’re no robots, but if anyone’s interested:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/shai_agassi_on_electric_cars.html
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Comment by ffs
Made Saturday, 3 of April , 2010 at 4:32 pm
no you do not look like a snail.
more like an over designed pile of crap
Comment by Mlah
Made Wednesday, 7 of April , 2010 at 3:50 pm
The reason this hasn’t been done before is that if you look at the battery of say a Roomba its a giant yellow brick that weighs several pounds not a small little packs that can easily be replaced.
Comment by Digital Capacitor :
Made Friday, 29 of October , 2010 at 3:56 pm
my cousin runs a local pet store and i love looking at those cute puppies that he keeps on the store`,”
Comment by Keratin Hair Treatment
Made Wednesday, 17 of November , 2010 at 8:48 am
the pet store here in our area offers me a great deal of discount when i buy from them `,~
Comment by paula jean meyer
Made Thursday, 24 of February , 2011 at 1:11 pm
not very cuddley, pets is not pets
I say LIVE pets!…..
Comment by Debbie King
Made Tuesday, 14 of June , 2011 at 5:05 pm
A robot to play with my dog? No thanks. I’ll play with my own dog thank you very much. And when I’m not around my dog can play with himself.
No wait, that didn’t come out right…
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