For those of you that treat your smart phone and tablet like it’s your best friend, you may now be able to get one step closer to having an actual companion. Google and the company iRobot have teamed up to create the AVA robot which rolls on wheels and uses a tablet computer as its “head.”
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AVA is a pedestal shaped bot on wheels which can autonomously navigate itself through a crowd without breaking anyone’s ankles. While containing a great deal of its own functionality, AVA’s head is a tablet computer. Any tablet computer. iPad2, Galaxy, you name it – iRobot claims they want AVA to be “head agnostic”.
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This looks way too much like a joke in one of the episodes of "The Big Bang Theory" where Sheldon concocts a similar robot to go to work for him while he hypochondriacally stays in bed controlling it...
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VM: Yup, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBR1CnHLgIs ... I love Woz's cameo!
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