Robot Wonders and Wanderings 2012-07-07

Furby 2012 has been (officially) announced

• Uses cheap-o LCDs for eyes
• No off switch
• some more thought to its “furbish” language processing
  • “The more you speak, the more chatty it becomes — speak enough and will begin incorporating more English words into its speech”
  • There is an iOS app that listens to furby speak and then provides translations
• sample coverage:
  • cnet – furby 2012
  • Engadget – furby 2012

“For 10 sweltering days in mid-June, a small army of crawling, rolling, hopping and hovering robots invaded Ft. Benning, Georgia, a sprawling training post near the Alabama border. The occasion: the U.S. Army’s Robotics Rodeo, a competitive evaluation of the latest ground-combat robots.”

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“Cleverbot AI and avatars talk to each other about life, the universe and everything”