Could Qbo be the Model-T of Domestic Robots?
A wonderful thing about the web is that everyday that I am connected to it I find a gem in the world of domestic robotics. Francisco Paz always dreamed about the future and its wonder technologies since he was young boy. He had high hopes of flying cars and autonomous domestic robots running about helping their human friends. Reality is that its 2010, we are living in his “future” but without all wonder technologies he dreamed about. The good thing is that he did not want to wait but instead start it and that is how Qbo (phonetically pronounced CUBO in Spanish which means CUBE) was born. Francisco knew that robots of all types existed (cleaning, demos, edu-tainment, toys, remote controlled, experimental, etc.) but nothing that was at arms reach of the masses like the Ford Model T was for the automobile industry. He is working on making Qbo to be an open source autonomous robot, with its own A.I., available to the masses! He is designing Qbo to be easily programmed without much programi