South Korea loves its robots. While the rustic prepares them to teach the teenagers and guard its prisons , smartphone-compatible models at the moment are propping up shelves in hobbyist shops. Dongbu Robot (previously Dasarobot) is launching several new products for wannabe bot engineers, but it is the Google OS-compatible HOVIS kits that caught our eye. While we already know Android-powered bots can make an average cocktail , these kits gets new features programmed to them through a phone’s Bluetooth and WiFi connections. The fundamental wheeled model may be upgraded to totally-fledged legs, while Dongbu Robot is operating alongside the country’s SK Telecom network to give speech recognition because the first software add-on, with plans for education and residential security all within the pipeline. The cost of sowing the seeds of the Robopocalypse ? Around $620 for the starter model. Sound like an excessive amount of? Well, there’s always Romo .
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