D2E Robotics to offer programmable bot this October
By Donald Melanson 
posted August 23rd 2006 3:26AM
posted August 23rd 2006 3:26AM
Korean start-up D2E Robotics looks to be aiming to take down WowWee's RoboSapien (ED-209-style) with its upcoming programmable robot, the decidedly less-catchily-named D2V-ZN. Set to retail for close to $750 US when it launches this October, the one-foot-tall programmable mech comes loaded with a built-in camera and will recognize voice commands.. While it's certainly a bit pricey to start with, the company says the price should come down to a more reasonable 300,000 Won, or just over $300US, once/if the robot starts selling in large quantities (emphasis on if). Either way, we're guessing it's going to be a Korea-only thing for a while yet, meaning you'll still have to pay quite a premium to actually get your mitts on one. Unless you're Omni Consumer Products, in which case you probably already own thousands.
I, for one, welcome our programmable robot overlords.
That would only be cool, if it actually shot things out of its hands. It would be a lot more versatile than that nail gun usb pc protector. This has to potential to be used in third world countries to hunt snow monkeys who reek havoc on towns. Kill em and grill em that's what i always say.
Looks like ED-209 from the old Robocop films... if it started saying things like .. would you like me to fetch you your slippers... you have ten seconds to comply....
We at OCP welcome our robocop overlords (that we made)
its owner with an embedded camera and take some pre-set orders after recognizing voices. it's very traitable feature.
Umm.. so it's coming prebuilt with gun mounts and fake guns?
Wheee the mods of this are going to be funnneee.
This begs two cliches:
Can it run Linux?
"Objective one: Kill owner"
"Objective two: Find Sarah Connor"