<h2>The $65,000 Emotive Robotic Avatar</h2>

Mail order retailer Hammacher Schlemmer is hoping that someone out there will be willing to plunk down the price of a luxury automobile on its Emotive Robotic Avatar. The US$65,000 device is essentially a stationary remote-control robot, through which its user can carry on conversations, make gestures, and convey five different emotions. On one hand it's a taste of the future, on the other... that's a very expensive puppet.

The 54-inch (137 cm) tall robot on stage (not shown), and is hidden in the situation of almost all the moving parts of his body with 19 engines. A pinhole camera and microphone, users can see and hear what is happening around him, each relay site change processor digital stereo voice-over two speakers in the scene - when and yes, her mouth moving speech.

In addition to being able to hold conversations in real time, the device can also happiness, confusion, anger, sadness and shame (as in "Oh man, I spent $ 65,000 on a doll!"). This is done through body language, voice, eyes and antennae, which contain multi-colored LED. wants to share For example, if the user is lucky, the robots are correspondingly high, with bright green eyes and green antennae perked-up - anger, on the other hand, is depicted with red eyes and pans withdrawn red antennas.

All this interactivity can be up to 30 feet (9 meters) on a tablet PC equipped with headset controls included in delivery.

Emotive Avatar Robotics has a frame made of aluminum, ABS plastic shell, and runs on AC power. The units are made to order.

Credit: gizmag.com