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You could certainly buy a ready-made robot to sweep your hardwood
floors, but doesn't building your own out of Lego bricks sound like
loads more fun? That's what PlastiBots did with the Pulito pictured
above, a Lego Mindstorms NXT sweeper with a host of sensors to
navigate around furniture and a standard Swiffer pad to scrub. There's
no fancy NorthStar or Celestial navigation packages to keep the bot on
track, so it meanders about much of the time, but there is an fancy
infrared beacon on the robot's charging dock to guide the creature
home. When the Pulito's running out of juice from a long, tiring
session of painstakingly traversing your floors, it's programmed to
automatically seek out that invisible light and receive a loving 12
volt embrace from the station's brass charging bars. See it in action
after the break, and hit our source link for more.
[Thanks, Dave]
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