Wowwee and Evolution Robotics Team Up

A partnership between and was just announced today. You can . The release says that WowWee will be incorporating some of Evolution's technologies, specifically their software and their , which uses project infrared light-spots on surfaces to detect where the robot is. This news comes after WowWee's annoucement last October that they were partnering up with Segway, the makers of the . So, if you put it all together, you get robots that have machine vision capabilities, awesome movement and balancing, and know where they are all the time. So, what exactly is WowWee up to? Something amazing, or are they just hedging their bets against impressive newcomers like and their ? Exciting times.

WowWee Toys
Evolution Robotics
read the official press release here
Visual Pattern Recognition (ViPR)
localization technology, Northstar




Seqway Human Transporter




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