By popsci Posted 10.30.2007 at 3:53 pm 1 Comment

Irobot_winner
Congrats to Instructables user dttworld for bagging the grand $5,000 prize for the iRobot challenge. If you recall, we helped get the creative juices flowing with our iRobot iNstitute—a guide to getting started with the flexible Create kit. Something tells me dttworld wasn't in need of our help, though, judging by his winning home service 'bot: it can talk, recognize faces, control your TV, water your plants, and even remind grandma to take her pills! Check out more photos and video here. —John Mahoney

iRobot Create Personal Home Robot [instructables]

iRobot iNstitute

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11/05/07 at 8:51 pm

Yeah, but can it get out those annoying grape juice stains out of kid's clothes?


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