Anybots QB Lets You Be Anywhere By Remote

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Anyone remember that Bruce Willis movie, Surrogates? Where you could buy a robot that looked like a really good-looking version of yourself, whereupon you could then send it out into the world to jump from rooftop to rooftop or just go party for days on end? Well, we’re a little closer to that actually happening thanks to telepresence robots like the Anybots QB.

The Anybots QB, likely an advance on the Anybots QA, comes equipped with WiFi b/g, a five megapixel camera, speaker, microphone, and a top cruising speed of 3.5 miles per hour.

Admittedly, it definitely does not look like the really good looking version of yourself unless you look like a lollipop on wheels, but it is kind of interesting to think that you could be sitting in, say, a coffee shop and send your robot rolling down to the video store to see if the copy of Surrogates you wanted came back in yet, or any similar activity.

Of course, to be in two places at once is no small task, and will thus cost no small pile of loot–like $15,000 worth of pile.? But if you put down ten percent on one of these, you’ll be enrolled in Anybots’ “100 Club”, and invited to a launch party. Expensive party, no mistake, but the QB is definitely an interesting idea.