Type:
Wheeled

Hardware:
Hitachi H8S controller with serial link to offboard PC or onboard subnotebook, controllable over the Net; 1MB Flash holds about 70 .wav files for onboard sounds

Software:
Comes with complete AmigoBot Suite and Colbert real-time language plus optional Saphira robotics development environment from SRI's Artificial Intelligence Center, transparent to C/C++; ACTS ActivMedia Color-Tracking Software also available and Ayllu multi-agent development environment

Sensors:
Sonar, vision option, microphone, 500-tick motor encoders

Locomotion:
Servo motors with 500 tick encoders, speakers

Chasis:
Heavy duty molded plastic

Other:
IR-based docking system is in the works for release in early 2001; up to 4-5 robots per space with frequency-hopping radio modems; more with subnotebooks onboard.

Estimated cost:
$1500 - $2300

Time spent:

Submitted by:
ActivMedia Robotics

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