Gizmo bot is here to help
By Paul Miller 
posted Dec 18th 2007 7:42AM
posted Dec 18th 2007 7:42AM
With a cute name like that you wouldn't expect this Gizmo robot to be so bent on risky reconnaissance missions, but that's what creator Javier Rodriguez Molina has in mind for his modular progeny. Gizmo is designed to gather information at disaster sites and relay it to whoever however, be that over wireless internet, cellular, Bluetooth or other means. Multiple bots can network together to collaborate, but while the current version of the bot is mostly a glorified remote control rover, future versions will carry all sorts of sensors and come in all sorts of form factors. Research is ongoing at San Diego's "Calit2," and the hope is for the final bot to come in under the $1,000 price point to make it easy for police, fire departments and other rescue organizations to buy the bots off the shelf.
Hmmm looks spiffy, I could use one to scope out my kids room before trying to enter it to clean....
E-Maxx ftw!
Were you scarred by the movie "Gremlins" as a child?
Thats just what I was thinking... Should have used a T-Maxx or a Savage though, as gas is always better.
I HATE the word Gizmo and any word/website that starts with Gizmo
Gizmodo what?
gizzo bot for women.
Woops, hit wrong reply button. Previous comment was for Alan...
Cool to see off the shelf components being used ... with servo and receiver standards, they probably can create some reusable designs that can be applied to various scales like 1/8 and 1/16 to allow for navigation in different confined spaces. I suspect a radical redesign with a custom chasis will be needed to to sport the rough terrain of a collapse but for pipes (and the like) it will probably work pretty good ... and a lot cheaper than traditional bots.
He's so cute :-)
Never fear, Gizmoduck--er, Gizmo bot-- is here!
wow, Javier has made it to engadget! I work upstairs from him at the UCSD Calit2 campus. I think I've heard his remote control vehicles trucking by.
Yey. Mister big-arm...
A bot that for now is just a "glorified remote rover" makes news? Someday we'll have flying cars too, but that's not news today. When it's actually a robot, let me know.
Lol... Looks familiar.
http://www.traxxas.com/products/electric/emaxx/gallery/emaxx-rock-wheelie.jpg
Maybe like that? Hehe...
Whomever.