Thoughts Become Things
I can’t tell if this is cool. What is cool? Not the soundtrack. It is, however, fitting for the little touchy humanoid.
Filed under: Odds and ends, Found Footage, iPhone, iPod touch
Back in May, our own Steven Sande reported on a robot with an iPod touch for a head. At the time, Robochan was pretty limited in capability and could only mimic back taught poses and stumble around drunkenly.
A lot has happened in two short months. Robochan has received a brain-transplant courtesy of the iPhone 3GS as well as other software changes. He’s been given alarm functionality to wake you up at a specified time, basic human interaction, and motion teaching and playback. But most importantly, Robochan can now dance around drunkenly to match his drunken walking.
As a robot fanatic I can only hope we see a more sober version of this robot on store shelves everywhere, but I’m not holding my breath.
TUAWFound Footage: Robochan gets a 3GS upgrade originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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