Many tech companies are trying to create the best robot companion of the future.
MIT is taking the same foot step, making another companion robot for you. This MIT’s robotic teddy bear is called Huggable™. It’s designed to be much more than a fun interactive robotic companion for the lonely geeks. It’s able to be involved as a team member, to participate in a social network to interact with others.
The Huggable is also packed with more hardware than any average bear, such as the entire body is all covered in touch/force/temperature sensors (about 1,500 sensors to be highly interactive). He’s also got cameras behind his eyes, a speaker in his nose, and servo motors etc.
Huggable is also capable of capturing those images, videos, sounds with its eyes and ears, and exchanges the signals with a centrally located server wirelessly for crunching those data.
An interesting feature of this Huggable bear is you can set one bear up and having another slave bear to imitate or reproduce the actions of the master bear. The slave bear copies all the movements of the master bear and a computer is able to tell you where and how the Huggable is being touched, and transmits live video and audio feeds.
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Do u think this will work for long distance… If not I get one and you get one .. then we can hug each other although we are far away .. Hope your wife aint reading this ..
lol i’m not sure the signal will reach that far -_-
yes its a cool thing with so many sensors in it but well its usefulness isn’t that high yet…