Palro Looks Slick, Listens To You
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Monday, 1 of February , 2010 at 4:48 am
Hobby robots tend not to prioritize form over function, but Palro (pal-ro, robot pal, get it?) looks pretty slick with his 15″ tall molded body and LED head. He’s got 20 degrees of freedom, an integrated camera, and apparently can respond to voice control. A comprehensive library and open software package gives a lot of programming options, and an Atom processor inside ties it all together.
While Palro certainly looks cool, if you use him to do the kinds of stuff that hobby robots are good at (like backflips and somersaults and stuff), you’re bound to blow out a servo sooner or later. And from the look of things, Palro might not be the easiest (or cheapest) robot to fix. ‘Course, he’s not the cheapest robot to begin with, costing just under $3300. The first thousand units will be available March 15.
[ Press Release ] VIA [ Plastic Pals ] and [ Robonoble ]
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Comment by Joey1058
Made Tuesday, 2 of February , 2010 at 12:23 pm
Nice bot, but at $3300, “hobby” is really not a term I’d use either.
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