Video: RoboStool follows you around, never leaves you sans a seat
By Darren Murph 
posted Aug 2nd 2008 2:52PM
posted Aug 2nd 2008 2:52PM
posted Aug 2nd 2008 2:52PM
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At the start of that video I expected to hear:
>>> "Zalright?"
>>> "Zalright!"
Or at least see a skeletal hand.
I think that they can make toilet model too...that always goes with you.
Can you imagine this robot combined with the one mentioned in this article: http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=526&doc_id=155718&f_src=flffour ?
A stool with personality: "It's been 2 months since my last oil change, let me just go ahead and push this mofo down the stairs"
Lmao i can see myself with this at the mall
with this following my dog, coco would flip a shit!
It's a little loud and slow when it going back and forth from "seat mode" to "travel mode"
that's what she does
That's also the camera, it has a tendency to accentuate certain sounds.
robostool- sounds like an absurdly powerful and efficient laxative...
you win an internet
I hope nobody ever makes me brownies with that stuff.
I would modify this into my own personal R2D2 unit.
I'm going to buy a ton of these, attach cardboard cut-outs of papparazzi to them and have them follow me around everywhere, so I look famous and all bad ass
you my good sir win at life
I'm sure this could be used in some beneficial way...it just alludes me right now.
what are you alluding to? this eludes me...
Perhaps if it were a wheelchair that would park itself in a corner for the mildly disabled who like to get out and sit in other chairs? Or a toolbox filled with tools to follow you as you work?
sweet, now I can be lazy all the time.
I don't even have to walk to a seat anymore.
I, for one, welcome our robotic stool overlords.
Boy, I can't WAIT to trip over something like this over and over in the future.
Dick Van Dyke is no longer safe.
Can they make some luggage that will follow me around now? Like in Terry Pratchett's "Sourcery"...
If it eats a few people in the process, I'm cool with that too...
if it had subordinate voice statements like "please use me for your comfort master" it would be an essential part of the home.
I can see a headline already: "RoboStool Kills Woman, Pushed Down Stairs".
The robot uprising begins...
Pak Chooie Unf
sterilize imperfections...sterilize imperfections...STERILIZE!
I sure could use that in my 500 square foot apartment. Chairs are always so far away.
Now if you made this a toilet that followed you around, you've made serious cash, bet nursing homes would love this.
Engadget said "Stool"... hehehe *points*
Seems similar to the project designed to follow you around a library.
http://www.robotliving.com/2008/06/16/robotic-chair/
"DI-REC-TIVE!"
EX-TER-MIN-ATE!!!
They should make one with a toilet.
You could still call it RoboStool (feces), CrapNGo or R2go#2.
C3PeeGo
I am pretty sure what is shown in the video is considered an ottoman, which by the way would make for a better name: Robottoman.
arigatoman mister Robottoman
Forget the foot rest... I'd redesign the top part to hold ice and bottles of beers and then have it follow me around!
I have a much cheaper invention I call "Rub-a-Stool."
I have a free one, it's called "The Floor"!
Wait...it utilizes a thermal sensing system to follow its master around?
I anticipate hours of hilarity when this thing's thermal sensing system locks onto freaked out housecats.
Unless your housecat is used to seeing random crazy robots...
http://www.norrislabs.com/Projects/Mona/index.html
There seems to be an awful lot of waiting involved with the current incarnation; I'd like to see that with faster and quieter motors so it can keep up with a person's normal walking pace, and not take so painfully long to raise up into travel mode.
That guys pants are a little short...
Nevermind, i only saw his pants after he sat down
Pretty sure he had pants on while walking......Not sure what You saw. I want one of these, walking with a cane everywhere makes me very tired. I need one of these, oh sbap no I don't. I need a segway, not one of those copycraps either.
One word: stairs.
They don't make them stairs anymore. Nowadays, the younger folks use these fancy gravity defying devices called elevators cause they're too heavy to go up stairs.
wait a second... dilbert already invented this!
I think the people that would really buy/want these probably aren't walking around that much to begin w/.
That's pretty cool...but what if there's more than one heat source?