Roboshopper unleashed!

Professor Vladimir Kulyukin at Utah State University has developed a robotic shopping assistant prototype to assist visually impaired people with shopping (but, regardless of appearances, NOT mowing their lawns, unfortunately). The robot features a Braille interface and uses radio tags to find specific products — a skill seeing eye dogs haven't quite yet mastered. Future versions will include synthetic speech and a bar code reader, which with any luck will resemble a thrashing chainsaw to complete the bot's put-together-using-things-I-found-in-my-shed look.