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Personal Home Robot Lands Nerd $5,000 in iRobot Contest

It may look like a [Star Wars reference omitted] with a very erect [Star Wars reference omitted], but the Personal Home Robot is actually designed for use in this galaxy. Danh Trinh of Towson, Md. took home a $5,000 contest prize from iRobot for building the cute but boringly named PHR on the iRobot Create platform. Made up of parts from all over, it appears to contain a Compaq iPaq, a wireless access point from Buffalo and a Logitech QuickCam. It can water plants, control lights and appliances, play music and remind owners to take their medication. It does not [Star Wars reference omitted], but neither do you. [Instructables]
iRobot Create Challenge press release after the jump. More »

10:39 AM on Tue Oct 30 2007
By Wilson Rothman
2,876 views, 10 comments

Latest by dichron: looks more like the original Dell Axim X5 with a symbol wireless CF card. it looks just like the one sitting unused on my desk right now more »

features

Frankenreview: The Best Of "Best Of CES 2007" Lists

CES is so hungover, and all that's left for journalists to do during this tech lull is to sit around and write up their "best of" lists for CES. But since our Frankenreview is about collecting product reviews and sifting through the opinions for consensus, what better to review than the best of what was reviewed at CES 2007? More »

2:30 PM on Wed Jan 24 2007
By Mark Wilson
3,074 views, 13 comments

gadgets

Clips: iRobot Create in Action

We first told you about iRobot's new Create robot yesterday, but now we have more. Basically this is a Roomba, minus all of the vacuuming utensils and adding a bunch of ports that allow the modders to go nuts. There was one functional unit at their booth, and it half-assed worked supposedly because it had been demo'd non-stop for the past couple days. But here is a video I nabbed of the Create doing a variety of tasks. –Travis Hudson

8:06 PM on Tue Jan 9 2007
By Travis Hudson
1,433 views, 4 comments

Latest by Mistoffeles: Hey, don't blame the robot, the programmer didn't tell it to shut the fridge door ;p I'll take a Carnegie-Mellon ballbot over this, though. http://news.com.com/2300-11394_3-6104184-1.html more »

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iRobot Launching an Edu-Bot?

iRobot is trying to expand their market beyond just mopping and vacuuming, with the iRobot Create. It's basically just the body of the Scooba without the brushes or cleaning fluid tank. Instead they tacked on some ports so people can mod the system to attach things like reticulating arms. More »

3:40 PM on Mon Jan 8 2007
By blongo3
1,176 views, 6 comments