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RoboScout Personal Robot
by Sharper Image
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Description:
From Sharper Image:
Imagine a walking, talking, seeing, hearing personal robot that can make a big difference in your everyday life!
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Key Features:
- 2.4 GHz transmitter sends video/sound to the remote's 3- x 4-inch LCD screen.
- Moves forward, back, right and left. Sensors detect obstacles and stairs.
- Adjustable arms hold up to 2 lbs. of drinks and snacks on two included trays.
- Talk into remote and RoboScout speaks in your voice! Dozens of programmed phrases.
- RoboScout stands 25 inches tall and weighs 24 lbs.
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Reviewer comments for RoboScout Personal Robot
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Average Reviewer Rating:
 
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Number of Reviews:
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Almost as good as it's advertising (revisited)
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Reviewer: Christopher Haskins
from Whidbey Island, Washington
February 12, 2002
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I'll see if I can keep this brief... The first RoboScout was defective. Sharper Image swapped him for a new (untested) one. That one had a defective transmitter. Sharper Image said they would call after they had one tested out as OK -- turns out they had a defective one also. Finally got a complete working RoboScout -- well, sort of.
Turns out that the LCD display and the Camera are color. At least, when the target is vividly colorful, and the light is very bright, you can almost make out a tint of color on the LCD if you hold it at just the right angle. For all practical purposes, I'd still consider it a good grayscale setup.
Our 'good' robot still had a problem. When the motion sensor was rotating, it 'thumped'. Taking the front off and examining the gears, we found a hard piece of plastic material jammed in one of the gear teeth. After we fished that out, the scanner rotated properly.
I'm confined to a zero-gravity chair at times due to Fibromyaglia, and for me, the RoboScout gives me a way to check up on and communicate with my family in other parts of the house. And for me, it's a handy item to have around.
The Automatic modes where the RoboScout runs around by itself are very entertaining, and he does seem to use his array of sensors very effectively to avoid collisions or seek out people to converse with. However, he's just as happy talking to a lamp, which he apparently looks like a human to his IR sensor...
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Almost as good as it's advertising...
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Reviewer: Christopher Haskins (chaskins@whidbey.net)
from Whidbey Island, Washington
January 04, 2002
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I received the RoboScout as a X-Mas present, and it is fun, but it's more like a Radio-Controlled toy. The Camera on the robot and the LCD screen on the transmitter are wonderful, but the camera is Black & White, not color as Sharper Image states in their ad. The manual is a few loose sheets of paper stapled together, with almost no information. The Website that Sharper Image refers you to for more information does not exist at this point. The unit is not programmable, but does have a "auto" mode where it will run around on it's own. The wheels have trouble going smoothly over rugs and floor transitions. The drive is also very noisy. I haven't determined the range of the transmitter yet, but it looks like about 50-70 feet. I'll post more as I learn more...
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