Kondo KHR-3HV robot celebrates Engadget Award with a new Linux backpack (video)

Yes, Kondo KHR-3HV, you were our choice for robot of the year, and we see you're celebrating by going out and getting yourself some new gear. We like your taste. Inside that fancy new backpack is a 32-bit Samsung ARM CPU running at 200MHz, powerful enough to handle Linux and things like onboard image processing and object recognition. It also supports WiFi, meaning Kondo can beam what he sees wirelessly and become a roving security guard -- a very small and non-lethal security guard, but a guard nontheless. This kind of tech (shown off in a video below) will set you back ¥60,000, or about $660, and yes that's just for the backpack. (The bot itself goes for somewhere north of the $1,300 range.) So congratulations again on your victory, 3HV -- just don't let it go to your webcam.

[broli Posted Feb 23rd 2010 9:26AM]

But will it run windows phone 7 series?

[MaTdg Posted Feb 23rd 2010 10:04AM]

@broli You can try it, but then you will have neither a working robot or phone.

[David V Posted Feb 23rd 2010 10:37AM]

@broli Nope, it doesn't meet the minimum specs.

[Plazmic Flame Posted Feb 23rd 2010 9:37AM]

This is a pretty cool piece of tech. Makes me wish I had learned linux coding when I had the chance.

[shamowfski Posted Feb 23rd 2010 10:27AM]

@Plazmic Flame
Because now your brain is full?

[HikaKao Posted Feb 23rd 2010 1:07PM]

Sunrise? Aren't they an animation company?

[NiTR0 Posted Feb 23rd 2010 3:17PM]

Today, robots...
Tomorrow, GUNDAM!

Sunrise is investing in the future of GUNDAM, today!

[FZeroWing Posted Feb 23rd 2010 5:03PM]

@NiTR0 That's their prototype for the Zaku...

[MrLinux Posted Feb 23rd 2010 8:12PM]

yes but will it run lin... oh never mind