Pico – Autonomous Robot The Size of a Dime

Developed by Zac Wheeler at Poor Robot, Pico is a miniature wheeled robot carrying it’s own power and brains, and, as you can see in the picture below, is small enough to fit on a dime! Even more impressive, it’s autonomous, capable of moving around on its own, avoiding obstacles, all at a top speed of about 0.5 ft/s (0.15 m/s).

Pico by Poor Robot
via (Engadget / Make)
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4 Responses to “Pico – Autonomous Robot The Size of a Dime”

  1. Bob Mottram says:

    Seems it also has a tendency to fall off tables. Not so smart, huh.

  2. Dave says:

    Everybody’s gotta be a critic. It’s the size of a freakin dime, cut them a little slack!

  3. Alex says:

    This robots still pretty damn cool if you ask me:)

  4. zaid says:

    Cool. Like the Epson minibots. if i remember correctly, they run on watch parts. Programmable, but not sure if they are autonomous. There is a clip of them during the 2003 ROBODEX, just Google it.

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