Ready for your personal Robot?

[Spinward Scout]

Or how we could build a personal robot with the tech we have now...

First, start with this:

Animatronic-roommate

Mix in some of this:

Voice Activated R2-D2

and this:

14 Language Talking Translator

this:

Emotive Robot

some of this, of course:

Robot Girlfriend

and even this:

Robotic Floor Washer

Especially the part where it goes and plugs itself back in to recharge.

And possibly house it all in something like this:

Remote controlled hovering space surfer

Without the surfer, of course.

Or this:

Home Sentry

Or even this:

Segway Robotic Mobility Platform

Give it an extended battery life and maybe even Flexible solar panels to help it maintain a charge while in operation, and you could have a pretty cool first iteration personal robot.

The hard part is getting all of these tech companies to work together to do something like this.

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[ganymede]

Why do I want my friend to look like a Tonka Truck's wheels?

I'd rather it all be packaged in the robotic girlfriend, as soon as she learns how to walk; that way I can use the HOV lanes if I need to and not get in trouble....

 

[G. Kashkanun Anderson]

I've got me one of these robots occupying a corner of my apartment. An incredibly simply design, and not a very smart 'bot; but does it do what it's advertised to do? Oh, Hellz yeah!

Now I just gotta find another robot willing to schlep the used cat lit bag out to the dumpster, and I've pretty much got the whole thing out of my hands.

I have a roomba, too. So I guess that means I've already got two domestic 'bots in my house, although none of them look anything like Rosie Jetson (well, maybe the roomba, a little). I also have two of those old biobug "robots," although I don't know if they count, since all they really do is lurch around, chirp at each other, and make the cats go berserk.

 

[jfetters]

GKA, it only goes too far if you name the 'bots.

 

[Spinward Scout]

I'd rather it all be packaged in the robotic girlfriend, as soon as she learns how to walk; that way I can use the HOV lanes if I need to and not get in trouble....

You can just carry her to the car, tho, right? I don't know, tho - I'm a little creeped out by that one. He really needs to get himself a real girlfriend. I can just see the robotic ⌧ pages showing up on my Google searches.

Here's another cool housing (there's a video):

Bladestar

This thing has an autopilot mode that lets it avoid furniture and people.