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12.02.09

Roboticists, Meet Your New Best Friend

The hackable Roomba
By popsci Posted 01.10.2007 at 3:11 pm 0 Comments

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This booth demo model is capable of sensing large objects on the floor,
and if unable to run them over, picking them up with a smart robotic
arm.

We at PopSci have always been big fans of the Roomba, the autonomous home robo-vacuum. Aside from being able to diligently cleaning your dirty, dirty floors without complaint, the Roomba has become become a thing of hacker legend. Enterprising robot fans the world over (including PopSci contributor and MAKE editor Phillip Torrone) have used its standard serial interface to make it do all kinds of tricks, from protecting your home to, well, cockfighting.

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