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gadgetreview.com - 3/5/2009
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I can only imagine what the folks at PETA are saying about this video. As you’ll see, the well paid engineers at iRobot decided to retrofit one of their autonomous vacuums with a hamster, a hamster ball and some sensors. Which ever way the hamster moves so does the vacuum. I ...
networkworld.com - 3/4/2009
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networkworld.com —
The folks at iRobot apparently have plenty of
time on their hands. They created a prototype wireless,
robotic vacuum cleaner...powered by a hamster running inside a spinning ball. The rodent's movements with the ball are fed to and analyzed by a ...
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Prototype wireless, robotic vacuum cleaner: ...
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Hamster-Controlled Roomba Lets Your Hamster Decide What Gets Cleaned [Robots]
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... clean your floors, but wouldn't it be more fun to let chaos reign by throwing the controls of your robotic vacuum over to a hamster? Some engineers with some free time on their hands decided to retrofit a Roomba with a mechanism that allowed it to be controlled via hamster ball. That is to say, whichever way the hamster runs, the Roomba goes. I'm sure it's quite liberating for the hamster, but I wouldn't count on your floors getting too clean. [Networkworld via Gadget Review]
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