The creator of the pac man modded roomba is at it again. This time, [Ron Tajima] is going in a completely different direction. He has made a baby cradle attachment for his roomba. We don’t know what safety concerns there might be, but the baby seems OK with, so far. We’ve seen robot baby cribs before, but they cost much much more and don’t clean your house.
roomba + baby + stairwell = plenty for darwin to work with… i wonder if his next hack will involve diy pins and plates for the resulting broken limbs?
Posted at 2:33 pm on Mar 22nd, 2009 by Richard
Despite all the weird problems I have with robot parenting, that video was excellent both for entertainment and ingenuity.
*hi fives*
Posted at 3:23 pm on Mar 22nd, 2009 by Louis II
At least if they live in a single-floor, non-split-level house there’s a low chance of earning a just-in-time Darwin Award. Seriously I don’t trust anyone but my wife with our six month old daughter; no robot, no matter how good the hazard sensing, is allowed to carry my child around before she can decide for herself, level head upon righted shoulders, whether she thinks it’s safe enough for her.
Posted at 3:30 pm on Mar 22nd, 2009 by Dan Fruzzetti
I’m guessing all the negative comments are from people who don’t have kids. Kids over the last hundreds of millennia have survived the average day to day events with little to no harm. Kids are remarkable resistant to normal life. The kids parents are obviously smart (hence the hack) so I doubt they think this is a 24/7 unattended solution. As anyone who has a rumba knows – they suck (and not in a good way) at cleaning – so after you forked out that much money, you have to do something clever with it.
Nice handheld styrofoam cutter in that video.
Posted at 5:58 pm on Mar 22nd, 2009 by Wwhat
Am I the only one to notice how much the weight of the baby is probably killing those tiny Roomba motors?
Posted at 9:46 am on Mar 23rd, 2009 by blizzarddemon
This is actually pretty ingenious.
Posted at 10:52 am on Mar 23rd, 2009 by raiukyuu
That baby is glued to that Roomba, i tellz ya. little sucker looks plenty big enough to roll over unaided, yet doesn’t escape the weird buzzing, lurching cardboard thing post-haste? Glue, and lots of it…
Posted at 12:46 pm on Mar 24th, 2009 by Gilbert Wham
“Never shake a baby” comes to mind.
Posted at 6:00 pm on Mar 24th, 2009 by Roberto
Where are the roomba rights advocates? Forcing a roomba into hard labor carrying that kid around all day is just plain wrong! You can see how much roomba hates it by trying to toss that kid off. Free Roomba!
Posted at 8:13 am on Mar 26th, 2009 by justkidding
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Roomba movements are so unnatural, I can easily see this kid having some problems later in life.
Posted at 1:18 pm on Mar 22nd, 2009 by BigD145