[Robotics] Wowwee reveals new robot with interesting localization technology

Posted 6 January 2008 at 11:43:18 by dub

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With the annual CES show kicking off, Wowwee is showing off their new products for 2008. The most interesting thing I noticed was the Rovio, which apparently includes NorthStar “GPS” - which I believe is actually NorthStar infrared localization, which was developed by Evolution Robotics. The development kit for this localization technology costs a cool $1700, while Wowwee’s robot will supposedly cost only $300. At that price, I would pick one up just to reverse engineer the NorthStar system.

So far as I know, the Rovio will be the first consumer robot to integrate NorthStar technology. Now if only Wowwee would build a cheap robot that uses VSLAM…

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