Now that Sony’s Aibo Robotic dog project has been dissassembled, it looks like Dasa Tech of Korea is going to save the day by introducing their own Robotic pet dog. [Link found via Memeorandum]
Frm the Dasatech website, some of the dog’s features are:
* 334x300x192mm dimensions
* Sensors: Temperature, PIR, tilt, touch, infrared, PSD, microphone
* Vision: CMOS color camera (355×288) in nose
* Processor: 32bit RISC, 8bit CPUx11
* Lithium batter, 1.5hrs battery life in “Auto Mode”
* 17 actuators
* Display: 3 color LED dot matrix (31 dots, 7×5)
* Sound: mono, music download support
* Voice recognition: 30 words
* Bluetooth, serial cable
No price posted yet.
I wonder if we’ll be seeing these robot dogs at holiday season.
It doesn’t sound like there is much programmability available here. I bet with some creative thinking, someone will come up with some way to extend and modify these Robot though. In fact, wouldn’t a UMPC and a pet Robot like this make an excellent combination? 🙂