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23. July 2008 by admin.
What is an automated music personality? It’s the new robot from Sega and Hasbro, that should be available worldwide in 18 months, at a cost of $745.
This is a two-wheeled dancing robot that can be hooked up to your MP3 player or iPod, and has speakers to play back music as it dances. You can see the full story here.
"The 73-centimetre (2.4 feet) tall black robot can bob its head and dance while LED lights on its head flash red.
It has stereo speakers and turntable-shaped hands that can be used for volume control, sound effects and DJ-style scratching.
"The Ampbot is for men who like robots and who as children dreamed of living one day with robots (italics added by me)," Osamu Takeuchi of Sega Toys, part of the Sega Sammy Group, said at the launch at the Tokyo Toy Show. "
I don’t know about you, but of the many things I dreamed of when I was a kid, living one day with robots wasn’t one of them. Though, scientists have yet to prove that Ronald Reagan wasn’t a robot (a possible Disney experiment to advance the state-of-the-art in the animatronic Hall of Presidents?), and I lived with him for 8 years…
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