Real-life Gundam
http://www.digitalworldtokyo.com/2006/07/reallife_gundam_robot_runs_on_1.php
"Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (ASIT) has just unleashed the latest in a long line of bipedal robots to come out of the R&D labs of this country. The HRP-2m Choromet is a 35cm tall, 1.5kg Gundam lookalike that is driven by Linux and for once, we're actually told the flavor in use: ARTLinux in this case.
Although the droid was actually announced in May, there is some new info in the latest English press release. Under the hood Choromet, which has been shown in prototype form under different names at past robot shows, runs on a 240MHz CPU and has 32MB of memory, so we're assuming he's not Vista-ready.
As for availability, Choromet was designed to be "small and inexpensive," apparently, so we could be seeing the 'bot on shelves before too long. Mind you "inexpensive" in Japan is often equivalent to most folks' "How much!!?""
"Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (ASIT) has just unleashed the latest in a long line of bipedal robots to come out of the R&D labs of this country. The HRP-2m Choromet is a 35cm tall, 1.5kg Gundam lookalike that is driven by Linux and for once, we're actually told the flavor in use: ARTLinux in this case.
Although the droid was actually announced in May, there is some new info in the latest English press release. Under the hood Choromet, which has been shown in prototype form under different names at past robot shows, runs on a 240MHz CPU and has 32MB of memory, so we're assuming he's not Vista-ready.
As for availability, Choromet was designed to be "small and inexpensive," apparently, so we could be seeing the 'bot on shelves before too long. Mind you "inexpensive" in Japan is often equivalent to most folks' "How much!!?""
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