Mowba's crazy mowing madness PC World Magazine, Australia - 6 hours ago Kyodo America's Lawnbott LB1200 is the first lawn-mowing robot that doesn't need a perimeter wire or external sensors in order to sense where it cuts. …

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Our favorite makers of home robots, iRobot, won’t be satisfied until one of their creations kills us dead at home under the guise of cleaning or tidying up. One day your local police will have a special RV unit. That stands for Robotics Victim. Anywho, iRobot has filed an iPatent for a lawn-mowing robot. It’s an 84-page filing with a variety of configurations, even an all-electric model and gas-electric hybrid. Some have acoustic and optical sensors that would seem to allow the robot to “av
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iRobot Patent Filing Hints at Lawn Mowing Robot Update Gizmodo Australia, Australia - 11 hours ago The folks behind the Roomba robot vacuum appear to have another robotic helper up their sleeves. In this case, it's of the lawn mowing variety, …

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iRobot Patent Filing Hints at Lawn Mowing Robot Update
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Mood: Good Hair: Pony Eyes: Recuperating, again Listening to: Ice Road Truckers My books are all caught up. I mopped a lot of floors–kitchen, living room, dining room, front hall.Roomba hates us. The stupid volunteer tree by the back door is chopped down. The garage is reorganized (not by me, but still). We have soap in both dispensers downstairs. Laundry is done for the weekend (again, I didn’t do most of it, but still). I have most of Sparky’s school registration paperwork finished and ready
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The folks behind the Roomba robot vacuum appear to have another robotic helper up their sleeves. In this case, it’s of the lawn mowing variety, but the final design is anything but final if the wide variety of shapes, configurations and features are any indication. A lawn-mowing Roomba-like robot… Lawmba? Loomba? Mowba. According to a detailed 84-page filing, various configurations are on the table, including all-electric model and a gasoline-electric hybrid. The filing also depicts several
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Filed under: RobotsNot that it’s any surprise, but according to a patent filing (which we were unable to ourselves unearth from the abyss that is the USPTO), iRobot would appear to still be working on the “Mowba,” or whatever the hell the lawn-cutting robot is that they were talking up years ago. We’re not sure you really need to pore over 80+ pages of sketches and drawings to get the idea though, especially since there are already a number of autonomous grass-cutting machines out there.Read |
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Hot news, folks! iRobot, the company that brought you the Roomba, Scooba, Dirt Dog, PackBot, Looj (Gutter robot), Create and more, has designed a lawn mowing robot that bears striking similarities to the Roomba, according to a new patent filing discovered by Robot Stock News! The long-rumored “Mowba” is no longer a rumor! According to the extremely detailed 84-page filing, various configurations are being considered by iRobot, including an all-electric model and a gasoline-electric hybrid, as
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Written by Mark Jacob | Tribune staff reporter Robots that are alarmingly humanlike, such as this traffic controller in Tokyo, seem too creepy and do not elicit empathy, says Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori. (David Guttenfelder, Associated Press / April 17, 2007 The movie “Wall-E,” a futuristic tale of a trash-compacting robot, has become a money-making machine at the box office. Here are some key components of robotics: 1. The word robot, coined by Czech playwright Karel Capek in his
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iRobot’s overseas military sales are expected to jump to 15 percent of the company’s military sales this year from about 9 percent, according to iRobot’s Government & Industrial Robots division president Joe Dyer in this CNET article. That’s despite overall growth in military sales. So far, 13 allied countries have bought versions of the company’s PackBot. (That should be aided significantly by the falling dollar). This, of course, is in addition to the 500% increase in foreign consumer sales i
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