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Subject: 
Re: New Robotics coming ??
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lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.nl, lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Thu, 8 Feb 2001 17:27:25 GMT
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Pieter Houba wrote:

> Yesterday I received from a toystore a video with some advertisement
> material on to be presented on a monitor in the store. Lucky for me the
> store didn't have a monitor or video.
> I was happely surprised to see that new robotics were demonstrated.
> To me it looked a lot like the Crickets mentioned on:
> http://fredm.www.media.mit.edu/people/fredm/projects/cricket/
> 
> On the video you could see different mobile robots that were able to react
> to each other, and for example one robot can be programmed to follow your
> hand, so it must have some kind of optical detection device. Not attached to
> the computer they could roam freely. And programs/information could be
> downloaded to the robot via a USB cable.
> Unfortunately the vision command is nopt yet available, so I don't have a
> camera to show you some captures of the video.
> 
> This was the first time I heard about these kind of robots. Did somebody
> else has information about them ??????? Hope to hear more of this.
> The video was in English for a store in The Netherlands. This surprised me.
> 
> Pricing was mentioned in dollars, If I remember well around 60 dollars for 1
> and around 100 dollars for a set of 2 robots. (Different kind of robots
> could be seen in the video)
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Pieter

I've seen those. In the Dealer Catalog there were pics or robots with strange
Scout (But smaller) boxes in their middle.

Dean
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