DarwinBot - The Pet Companion Robot

Jordan's a developer on the Microsoft Robotics Team and recently built a remotely operated robot for interacting and playing with his pet over the internet. It has two way audio and video through Skype, a ball launcher, treat dispenser, ball recovery arm and a pan & tilt camera.

It is built on the Parallax EDDIE hardware platform with the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 4 development tool.

Find out more at http://www.microsoft.com/robotics

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[mod50]

If he was working at Google, he could just bring his dog to work and "interact" with it there.

[hush404]

Cool Microsoft commercial, bro.

[Matias Castro]

stupid use for so cool robot

[Guðjón Smárason]

What if the robot becomes self-aware and kills your dog?

[Kieran Warren]

good

[pyrrhicpk]

Hi,

Are you using SSC32 to control the robotic arm and the other r/c servos? Have you interfaced the SSC32 with the eddie main control board and communicating it through propeller or independently using a separate manifest? Can you please advise me in this respect as I am also planning to add a robotic arm to my eddie robot but confused in deciding whether to interface multiple servos with the eddie main control board or use SSC32 to take care of all the servos.

Thanks

[Srivathsan G K]

what breed is your dog ?

[Lynx Genisys]

thats cool!

[anamkhai]

How do you power the laptop for an entire day of work with the webcam on ?

[Mark Nava]

SWEEEEET! You should make a patent, mass produce these, sell them for a fare price, and you would be a millionaire....you wouldn't need that full-time job anymore. BTW make it a Playstation controller, and everyone would die for one of those ;D

[FrameDrumAndFlute]

This is our future instead of telecommuting to the office, we'll live at the office and telecommute to home.

[Darokrithia]

this is why microsoft rocks