[Wear-Hard] Followable Computer?

[Steven Adams]

Quoting Panthera Altaica <draltaica at yahoo.com>:

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> --- On Sun, 5/10/09, Internaut at Large <dkap at mailhost.haven.org> wrote:
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>> On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 01:39 -0700, Panthera Altaica wrote:
>> > Any one though of make a robot that follows you around
>> and does all the stuff a wearable would do.
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>> Doesn't iRobot already have one (or two) that do
>> that?  One that is
>> designed, ready to use, and the other that is designed to
>> be hacked, to
>> one's heart's content?
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> If they do they are keeping it secret.

It is fairly basic, but as a platform to build fom, iRobot have the  
Roomba (that little 'smart' vacuum cleaner) and sell a bluetooth link  
module so you can control it directly/access sensor values.

Much larger than the followable computers you described earlier,  
Lockheed Martin developed the MULE as an aid for US troops. It is best  
described as a robotic donkey. i'm at work so can't get much from the  
web, but google will turn up plenty of hits/videos of it in action.