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Meet Robochan, the iPhone 3GS robot!

By: , IntoMobile
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 at 10:35 AM

When will geeks’ obsession with smartphone-controlled robots end? Well, if they’re half as cool as Robochan, we hope it never does! Meet Robochan, a Kondo KHR-2HV humanoid robot controlled by an iPhone 3GS that also serves as the ‘bot’s head and face. Robochan comes to life with the iPhone 3GS connected through the dock connector. The iPhone 3GS can be used to control Robochan and displays different facial expressions – good for predicting when your wayward humanoid robot is planning to lash out at its human overlords.

[Via: Ubergizmo]

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Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...

  • Daniel Perez

    From my Otaku-ness, I can tell you one of the faces that is used is the popular Vocaloid character, Hatsune Miku. She’s the character with the green hair and holds a piece of celery (not sure as to why though, just accept it I guess).

    This is an awesome idea and it reminds me of WowWee’s Robosapien toys. The more recent iterations actually allow you to teach the Robosapien dance moves in a similar fashion as seen in this video. I wonder what they about this video as they pride themselves on being the leader of this kind of technology.

  • James Falconer

    If they could program it to open up the fridge and grab me a beer… I’d buy three.