5/13/2007

PaPeRo 2005

Waaaaaaay back in the early days of the 3Yen, we said there’s an odd, “compulsion for every Japanese company to make their robots look cute–something well-demonstrated by NEC’s PaPeRo robots (Dec. 2005).”

Well, he’s ba-a-a-ack.
And PaPeRo-mini is even cuter and is now being sold as a “desktop sized personal robot.” PaPeRo-mini( L) is multi-colored and not a “scary” evil silver robot (R) as you can see below it is the perfect playmate for geek girls.

NEC launches mini PaPeRo robot
Barely bigger than a laptop, not evil - honest
Technology news - Tech.co.uk | 08 May 2007 12:36…PaPeRo-mini stands just 250mm tall - that’s barely higher than a laptop - and weighs 2.5kg. He packs a better CPU (an ARM 9192) and digital signal processor than his bigger brother…more...