Hi robohappy everyone has their own reason for having a robot - and I don't think any one here has a robot to "not bump into a walk". That's more the arduino or parallax style robots you're thinking of. Every EZ-Robot can have conversations with you using the AI control, understand Vision or be scripted to perform tasks. Now, not every one builds an eZrovot for a specific task that you may find useful, but you must respect that it is useful to them

Some people want a robot as a companion or pet. That's why I like these robots. I like to come home to a personality robots which greet me at the door and say or do funny stuff. One of my robots likes watching tv because of the colors and motion - that's clearly not a useful task but it entertains me!

There are thousands of ezrobot users from our previous product. And not all of them are active on here. Many of them are companies that license our product to be used in their product. You'll see a lot of products released in the next year with eZrobot inside.

There's also a few community members who have been inspired to build robots for their own personal reasons - which range from smart wheel chairs to fire/disaster recovery. There's also a school that was making a robot cart to move books from room to room. There's people making ez robots to control home automation.

EZrobot is a blank canvas for your robot creation. We provide an environment which let's you focus on creating rather tha all the hard low level stuff.

As an example, to create a robot without eZrobot would take hardware circuit design, microcontroller programming, algorithms for servos and audio and video. Then you have to program graphic interfaces and speech recognition. Now yiu have to merge in opencv or create your own algorithms for vision processing... By the time this is all done, it's taken you years.

So starting with eZrobot, you can focus on the robot instead of everything else

@RoboHappy, thanks for starting this thread. It's a great one and has turned into a good and useful conversation. It's always good when DJ chimes in.

The one I am working on is a remote presence robot. It is basically a mobile web cam that my girlfriend and I can use to check up on our cats while we are away... I have a lot of vex robotic kits that make a great robot platform.. Down the road with some wherewithal I am hoping to add some sort of claw/arm manipulator so maybe making it possible to feed, give fresh water and even clean the litter box as well... Like DJ says, the possibilities are endless...

Thanks DJ, and everyone one else who chimed in. Lovin all the responses and am very impressed with some of the applications. I do hope to hear some more too. I right now, am just trying to simple, getting a bot to move my laundy basket around to/from the laundry room of the condo complex (leg and back issues lately). My dream robot someday maybe would be to build a Terminator (or Cylon). I just kind of find them to be the ultimate bots off all time.

RoboHappy, After reading your last post, I remembered someone built a Robo Belhop with a IRobot Create, an add on Create $Module$, a laundry basket, and an IRobot virtual wall. Here is a simpler, cheaper solution (maybe less features) that I discovered today. I used my IRobot Create ($129), an IRobot virtual wall (cheap on Ebay), a rubber band to strap the virtual wall on my foot, and a piece of electrical tape to block all but a small opening on the front of my IRobot Create IR sensor. The Create comes with built in Demo modes. I used Demo #7 "HOME". After applying the tape restricting the IR sensor, I strapped the virtual wall to my foot, enabled both, and my robot would circle till it located me and drive toward me. If I moved slowly to a new location it would continue following me! If I let it bump into me it would stop and stay stopped if the beacon was near. If I walked away, it would start up again automatically and hunt me down! I am staying no more than 8 feet away during the video. I had tried this demo before but with the virtual wall stationary. I never realized the Create would restart if I had the wall strapped on my foot and walked away! What a cool bonus! I am also thinking I may be able to execute this from my EZB by sending Serial commands. EZ Robot and the IRobot Create are both great, and they are both great bargains! Steve S

Lol, steve! Imagine if you pit this on another robot and drove it around! Robot tag!

Steve that's awesome. The ezb connects to the roomba easily. Look under "add controls, robots" in ARC. You'll find a roomba control that makes it even easier!

"What's your robot suppose to do when you finish it?" That's what my co-workers ask when they here about my project. Then usually followed by "is it going to get you a beer, vacuum the floor, answer the door....?" then I reply with a simple answer that it's simply for my entertainment and a hobby to tinker with. They don't seem to get it. That doesnt matter to me because its for me. When finished I will have something to show my young son to get interested in electronics and show him that he can make one too when I get back to the states.