WowWee Rovio: New Videos Herald Robot’s Arrival Tomorrow
Tomorrow, the next big thing in mini robots arrives. It’s WowWee’s Rovio, taking home surveillance and communications with a Webcam robot to the next level of brilliance/dodgy Peeping Tom territory. Rovio has been knocking around the Web for some time but it launches officially tomorrow [in the US first] for around £165 and there are 2 new videos showing off just what the little fella can do. That said, the bit that shows your business colleagues sitting talking to this robot in a video-conference without laughing their assess off every 30 seconds is just a marketing pitch too far. Rovio is a very manoeuvrable Wi-Fi and GPS-enabled bot and the controls on your PC will allow you to drive this baby all over the house via the Internet, scaring the pets and snooping on your kids. Oh, and checking for burglars. The interface looks very user-friendly and the image quality - check out Video 2 below - looks great. It comes with a charging base which it can find it’s way back to automatically when power is low - very handy indeed. I can just imagine how little work will get done once people start snapping these up tomorrow and as Christmas presents.-Martin Lynch [More videos of Rovio at Robotsrule] robot robots technology
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Original post by nafiz