RoboAppStore Adds Functionality to Your Favorite Robots

Do you want your robot to smile every time it sees you? Or you want it to whistle and say "hello gorgeous" whenever it sees a girl, just like the stereotypical Italian movie character? Well, there's an app for that -- in an app store exclusively for robots.

It's the RoboAppStore, the only app marketplace for bots. Launched in 2011, it has just received a $250,000 investment from Grishin Robotics, to jump start the world of software apps for robots. The RoboAppStore allows bot owners to download apps for consumer robots like the NAO Robot, the iRobot Roomba vacuum cleaner, or Sonys Aibo robot dog.

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