Robots gear up for life outside the lab
‘Phil Mass hasn’t launched his second effort at a consumer robot yet, and he is already thinking about a third.
The designer’s passion for all things robotic mingled at the RoboNexus conference last week with more sober questions about how robots can step out of the lab and the classroom and into broader commercial markets.
Element Products, Inc. (Broomfield, Colo.), co-founded by Mass last August, plans to launch next year the Scribbler, a $100 programmable robotic car aimed at students and researchers. As the name suggests, the salad-plate-sized car can wield a pen to make drawings, and it sports light and infrared sensors so it can follow printed lines or navigate blocks based either on a user’s BASIC program or programs that come with the device.’
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