Robopax BabySitter automatically rocks crying babies

Anyone who's tried to calm a screaming newborn will appreciate the Robopax BabySitter. Based on the time-tested idea that nothing soothes like movement (countless parents who've taken 2 a.m. drives to nowhere can vouch for that), the BabySitter is a battery-operated platform that automatically rocks a stroller 66 times per minute (the average adult heart rate). While there will inevitably be some parents who'll scoff at the idea of a machine rocking their kids to slumber, we think there are legions of bleary-eyed, sleep-deprived moms and dads just waiting for this (it's due to ship in May for roughly $150) and for the company's next product: a larger version that can rock a crib. That one had better come with AC power, though. As any parent of a colicky newborn will tell you, the minute the rocking stops, the screams begin all over again.

[Via Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends]

[Dave @ Dec 19th 2005 1:38AM]

When the first one of these things malfunctions and puts a baby through a window, I'm not going to know whether to laugh or cry.

[msafi @ Dec 19th 2005 1:38AM]

i really wonder about how those digitally nurtured baby's gonna view the world when they grow old.

[J.b. @ Dec 19th 2005 1:38AM]

"While there will inevitably be some parents who�ll scoff at the idea of a machine rocking their kids to slumber..."

In analyzing the recently developed auto mommy-be-dead rocker and the statement above I have concluded the folks that may offer this aforesaid opinion may conclude that the newborn will use the action of crying to resolve anxiety based on the condition stimuli theory.

Although, the folks that utilized the device not concurring the above theory could maximize the average personal sanity percentage produced while engaged in the obligation of a newborn family status/environment.

Furthermore, this may very well be the introduction of relative robotic/newborn symbiosis standard that will link a subtle social psychosis to everyday use of inter-family-care technology resulting in a widespread inter-global humans pro-a.i. vs. humans no-ai.

In conclusion, I have decided to stop consuming an unprecedented quantity of caffeine via coffee, and getting healthy natural sleep- thank you C. Palahniuk.

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Identify. Execute.

[Kwang @ Dec 19th 2005 1:38AM]

I anxiously await the Robopax BabyShaker.

[Michael @ Dec 19th 2005 1:38AM]

Now why didn't they make a baby-powered robot rocker?

[Al @ Dec 19th 2005 1:38AM]

My parents used one of these on me...it was their dryer...

[Michael Thompson @ Dec 19th 2005 1:38AM]

Isn't this how the Daleks got started?

Exterminate! Exterminate!

(Like you can't see it in that kid's eyes, even if the hardware isn't up to scratch yet!)

[Michael Thompson @ Dec 19th 2005 1:38AM]

Davros! That's who that is!

It's Jim Henson's Dalek Babies, featuring young Davros!

[Shawn Lea @ Dec 19th 2005 1:38AM]

I let my colicky son sleep in a swing until he was six months old. From the picture, the swing looks like a safer bet than that device. (And, yes, I walked away bleary-eyed from the bright red DO NOT LEAVE THE BABY UNATTENDED sign plastered on the top of the swing.) But don't worry...he's five now and he survived.

[Andrew @ Dec 19th 2005 1:38AM]

Why can't parents just take care of their baby. We make our lives easier by technology but don't you think babies should be raised the old fashioned way (human interaction).

[Michael Thompson @ Dec 19th 2005 1:38AM]

Absolutely NOT!

We were raised by humans and look how messed up WE came out!

[Amy @ Dec 19th 2005 1:38AM]

This device made me laugh. When my daughter was little we bought her one of those infant swings; it had a wind up thingie like an old fashioned music box that we cranked up to make it go up and back. Hey, it was the seventies...anyway, we put our little girl in aforementioned swing when she began to cry, and the faster the damn thing went, the louder she cried. So much for replacing the old technique of holding our little infant daughter on our shoulders and pacing the floor for hours on end. Her father and I learned our lesson about mechanical child care.