[Wear-Hard] Followable Computer?

[Steven Adams]

Quoting Steven Adams <steven at quickdry.net>:

> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.

oops, wrong one, I think the MULE is a wheeled vehicle - but the  
wheels have stubby little legs to help it get about, and it is really  
big.

I was actually thinking of the BigDog quadruped, it looks like a big  
headless animal - walks over rough ground, jumps, stands itself up -  
if you can find a clip of it saving itself from a fall when they test  
it on an ice surface it is pretty impressive.