Anybot

Saturday, 17 February 2007

The Personal Robot species is broad, growing and gets is evolutionairy force from Japanese and Korean companies. One of these companies is Mostitech, which is located in Korea and has developed several personal robots over the past few years. Their latest design is Anybot (also called 'Mir-H' on their website). Anybot is a so-called Ubiquitous Robot, which simply means that the product combines robotics technology with Internet technology in order to provide the user online services.

Anybot supports four applications. First the robot brings you Security. The built-in camera is able to detect intruders and takes pictures that are sent to your cell phone. Secondly, the robot can be controlled via some network by a cell phone, providing the user a Remote-control Monitoring application. Entertainment applications is the third class of applications supported by this robot. Voice recognition, playing mp3 files, games, and real-time information including news and weather are all present. Finally, the robot supports Home Networking applications so that a user can control home electronics by giving Anybot commands.