Rovio is the first robot from the WowWee company to use the breakthrough Northstar technology for pinpoint navigation of your home or office.
Rovio acts as a Wi-Fi enabled spy robot with full audio and video streaming capabilities, accessible from anywhere in the world you have a Web connection and a Web enabled device like a PC, video game console, or cell phone.
All you Aibo fans out there crying your eyes out because the Sony robo-dog has been discontinued can finally dry your tears. A new electronic mutt from Sega called the MIOpup hopes to take up where Aibo left off. Although the MIOpup isn't as visually slick as its predecessor, the robo-dog features a couple of neat tricks.
Want to keep a tight tab inside your home or office when you are on vacation to some remote vicinity? Want to gift a cute humorous personal bot to your kids? WowWee will be exhibiting two new robots dubbed Rovio and Mr Personality at CES 2008.
With this white six-wheel radio controlled robot you can enter a room and undetected (hopefully) listen in on conversations and transmit them to up 150 feet away to the listening receiver.
The HOAP-3, a humanoid robot by Fujitsu, is able to redefine the way it interacts with its environment as it learns. It accomplishes this by mimicking movements learned by way of a motion-capture-equipped human companion, watching others move around, and memorizing the way it's taught through handlers physically manipulating its limbs. The HOAP-3 can compare these actions to the ones it already knows, correcting and remembering what it needs to.
This brand new video shows an i-SOBOT robot being controlled by arm gestures with the help of the Nintendo Wii controller and the Nunchaku attachment. At the heart of the video is the free Robodance 4 software.
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