At CES this week, WowWee introduced its Rovio roving webcam, a Wi-Fi-enabled video guard dog for your home.

"Through a built-in camera that streams video and audio, users can view and interact with Rovio's environment, surveying their home or office remotely through streaming video and audio transmitted via the Rovio robot," writes Pocket-Lint's Stuart Miles.

"It basically trundles around your house and can be controlled remotely, but also has something called NorthStar smart navigation built in, which lets it navigate around under its own steam using a micro-GPS-like system," explains Tech Digest's Stuart Dredge.

The NorthStar 2.0 smart navigation system comes from Pasadena-based Evolution Robotics - the system, according to a company announcement, "enables robots to be truly aware of their environment and perform everyday tasks with complete autonomy..."

"Unfortunately, we'll have to wait until the Fall for this one to hit stores, and it'll be a semi-hefty $299 a pop, but it's certain to make you the coolest gadget hound on the block (at least judging by the attention the Rovio was getting on the CES show floor this evening)," writes Switched's Alon Avdi.

More here from InfoSync World ... more here from the New York Times ... more here from PC World ... more here from StartUp Beat ... more here from Crave ... more here from SlashGear ... WowWee's press release is here ... and Evolution Robotics' press release is here.