01 Mar, 2009
Robo Engine’s Life Log Robot “Pyuuun” takes care of little stuff, serves tea
If you stroll along the back streets of Akihabara and visit robot sites on the Internet fairly often, it would seem that tiny robots that do increasingly sophisticated little things are popping up regularly in Japan.
Take this interesting pet robot for single geeks announced by Robo Engine the other day.
Diminutive Pyuuun (Weee! in English) uses no less than eight sensors (impact sensor to detect obstacles, illumination sensor to measure a room’s brightness, sound sensor to measure noise levels, distance sensor to measure distances to obstacles, temperature sensor, acceleration sensor to measure the incline of a surface, pyroelectric sensor to detect the presence of moving things and infrared sensor to detect other machines) to monitor conditions in a room and can be programmed to action if any specified condition change.
Email and blogging functions are, like Net Tansor Web, built-in. So little Pyuuun can be programmed to send email if a person is detected inside a room or blog if an earthquake strikes (which is fairly regular in Japan) or if the person next door is playing his stereo way too loud.
Easy programming is done in Visual C# and VBA in Windows 2000/XP and above.
Pyuuun easily fits on a palm and weighs around 1 kilogram. One unit costs 300,000 yen (about $3,070).
Oh, and did I mention that it also serves tea? ^_^;
{Link: Tech Insight}
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