About Robotics. I received feedback on a couple of fronts. First, Swan Solutions Managing Director Bart Delgado (whom I had the pleasure of meeting at Inter-Tel's analyst conference earlier this month) had an interesting insight about the Seiko Epson flying micro robot video link that I included in a TF entry last year. Bart makes a few interesting observations, including the pendulum-like motion and the blue background. I went back to the Gizmodo entry on the same topic, and did not see any updates. Funny how the Gizmodo folks also noticed the "enthusiasm" of the demo girl. But I will have to see this flying micro robot for myself before making any judgments.
Bart, being a big heli enthusiast, mentioned the Hirobo XRB Sky Robo Silver Lama (shown to the left), a radio controlled electric indoor heli, as being the closest available robot to this Seiko Epson model. Bart also gave me a verbal update on UK sales of Robosapien, the robot that I nearly bought while visiting Boston last summer with wife. According to Bart, this was one of the hottest toys sold during Christmas, for an 80£ price tag. Indeed, according to this Times Online article, Hamleys (a London toy shop) expected to sell 180,000 models, whereas online gadget shop sold 20,000.
