Figla's Eye

Figla, a Japanese company dealing in glass and cosmetics of all things, has developed a cleaning robot for industrial use. According to a rough translation of the company's Japanese website, the autonomous robot can wax the floor, vacuum and it avoids obstacles using ultrasonic, bump and infra-red sensors. It's got wireless LAN built in and can have a camera attachment for remote operation and it can talk. See here and here for some cool videos. Is it just me, or can you hear Figla's robot say "who's your daddy, Roomba?" in the second video?

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