QRIO and HOAP-2 wanna get physical

By Ryan Block

We really wanted to invite QRIO to the sock-hop, but we thought that it might be a little old-fashioned, you know, for a robot of the future. But oh, how wrong we were—we had no idea you rollerskated (albeit to really bad music), QRIO! You've once more set our little organic hearts aflutter. We also rather enjoyed watching Fujitsu's HOAP-2 do some sumo prep moves. HOAP-2 is retail available for
$1,500 apparently, but it doesn't appear to be a wireless solution like QRIO. No matter though, as HOAP-2 owners are already entering their programmable robots in fighting competitions to see whose kung-fu (pun intended) is superior.

[Via BoingBoing]

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