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November 16, 2012 04:22 am GMT

This Is How a Throwable Robot Sees My Office


I always wondered what it would be like to take a military-grade, throwable robot on a tour of Mashable's office. Now I know. iRobot's 110 FirstLook, a five-pound surveillance robot that you can literally throw into the field to gain "situational awareness," took the test and survived.

iRobot's Senior PI and Director for Research Advancement Dr. Chris Jones brought the 110 FirstLook to Mashable's New York headquarters, pitched it into the editorial bullpen and then handed me the controls. The phonebook-sized bot communicates digitally with a remote control that offers a view of what FirstLook sees via one of its four wide-angle, on-board cameras and…
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