Bandai’s NetTansor: First Wi-Fi Robot ‘For the Voyeur Inside Us All’
Gizmodo's Louis Ramirez reports on the arrival of the first robot to be "specifically designed for the voyeur inside us all."
Bandai Robot Laboratory's NetTansor is controlled via Wi-Fi, and carries a webcam mounted up front, along with three sensors to keep it from walking into things.
"You can communicate with the bot via e-mail (no word on whether he'll write back) and he's got enough juice in him to give you two and a half hours of voyeuristic fun," Ramirez writes. "That's our kinda robot."
At Gizmodo, slowreader responds, "Now i can put this in my fridge and catch my roomate stealing my food!"
The NetTansor brochure (PDF file) is worth checking out — as underrun puts it, "The pdf is neat too if you like to imagine what it's capable of (attacking children and household pets). Seems to be a music delivery robot as well…"