The most advanced consumer robot yet
Remember the Robosapien, the Robopet, the Roboraptor, the Robosapien V2 and the Roboreptile? These consumer robots are not just remote-controlled toys, but are imbued with a basic form of artificial intelligence, able to roam around your home, interact with people, avoid objects and look very 21st century. Now, the RS Media has arrived – the most coolest and avanced consumer robot yet!
Meet RS Media! Notice the LCD screen on his chest…
RS Media looks like an upgraded version of the previous two Robosapien models that took the world by storm in 2004 and 2005, along with the Roboraptor, the Robopet and the Roboreptile that you can see below.
RS Media is the latest model and he has some serious hardware upgrades. Besides just being able to move around, interact with the environment and be programmed to perform cool tasks and tricks, the RS Media has four new personalities to entertain you, and can now play music, photos, films, games and more, with video and other information appearing on the inbuilt LCD screen. RS Media is controlled with a games console-style remote control that you hold with both hands.
He, or she, if you like, includes software to add your own applications or to create a unique personality – based on yourself and your voice, or that of anyone else you can think of.
RS Media holding the remote control…
Built-in speakers and a subwoofer deliver the aural experience, while there’s even as a built-in camera which works to take photos or videos. 50Mb of memory is stored within, while an SD card socket lets you add more space, and store mp3s and videos for easy playback. A USB port allows for easy connection to a PC and there are plenty more features at the RS Media website to discover!
Given that RS Media has quite advanced and programmable movement, especially with his arms, you might just be able to program him to get you a beer from the fridge, although you’d probably have to get everything set up perfectly. No doubt the ‘works every time’ beer-fetching robot is not too far away, though. Still, RS Media is versatile. He can fall on his back, but through clever motors can right himself without assistance. RS Media can also control the Roboraptor, Robopet and Roboreptile through infra-red commands, giving you a family of robots than can play together in your home, entertaining you, your guests and themselves!
Launched on Tuesday the 10th, RS Media will be exclusively available (for now) from David Jones stores in Australia, although no doubt he will be in toy stores across the globe. Comedian Mikey Robbins, Miss Universe contestant Erin McNaught and Rugby League star Braith Anasta were on hand to launch RS Media, and each had an RS Media pre-programmed with their voices and selected sentences – you can see a photo below. Other famous Australians to have aspects of their personality programmed into their own RS Media robot include Rove, Kerri-Anne Kennerley, David Koch and Dave Hughes. This was to demonstrate how easy it is to program your own or a different personality into the RS Media robot – you can rest easy knowing the four pre-programmed personalities loaded as standard into the robot are quite fun and aren’t celebrities!
Braith, Erin, someone I don’t know and Mikey Robbins
RS Media costs AUD $799, and is the coolest, most advanced, most versatile and most customisable digital media robot ever created. While it’s set to be one of the hottest toys of the year, one can only wonder what the next version will look like, and what it’ll be able to do, no doubt launched in time for Christmas 2007!
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