ken@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson) (09/07/88)
Valiant Designs Limited exhibited their new floor turtle, the `Roamer', at the British Logo User Group annual meeting. The Roamer is a programmable robot, intended to be robust and reliable. It can be transformed by fitting different covers into all sorts of robots: a fire engine with a flashing light and extending ladder, a dog (with wagging tail and bark), and a bee with noisy flapping wings. And, like the classic Floor Turtle, it can draw on the floor with a centrally positioned pen. Expected release date: November 1988; price around 70 pounds for the basic robot. Great fun. Further details from (NB Postal strike at the moment in UK!!) Valiant Technology Ltd Gulf House 370 Old York Road Wandsworth London SW18 1SP Phone 01-874 8747 -- ============================================================================== From: Ken Johnson Address: AI Applications Institute, The University, EDINBURGH, Scotland Phone: 031-225 4464 ext 212 Email: k.johnson@ed.ac.uk Quotation: There is a difference between disliking people, even disliking people a lot, and actually killing them. Most of the people on this planet owe their lives to this distinction. [Douglas Adams]