Forget all that half-assed consumer robot crap — the Pekee Mobile Robot Platform is a real robot, designed as an open platform for students and researchers who want to know more about robotics and the subjects it touches, like AI, networking, signal analysis, and particle destabilization rays. Hell, you could even build your own Roomba, if that’s what you wanted, using the capabilities of the embedded microcontrollers (Mitsubishi M16c) , video camera, 802.11b, gyrometers, and temperature, light, shock, and infrared sensors. You can even program it in good ol’ Visual C++ (or something more robust, probably, if you’re bright enough to code your own interface). Sure, its casing looks like a Volkswagen dropping, but for $10k you can’t expect to get ED-209.
Read [WanyRobotics via SensoryImpact]
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