PALRO Fujitsu Personal Concierge Robot
Fujisoft’s PALRO robot the personal concierge has a female voice with voice recognition, can take pictures and send them to your phone or computer and can also read you the weather. The robot is powered by an Atom Z530 processor with 4GB flash storage running on Ubuntu. Video below.
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The PALRO is available for educational and research institutions for about $3,600.
Robot looks fun but still a little weird. I’m sure robots will continue to improve both in function and price point. If it could do dishes and laundry I’d snap one up in a sec.