LG Brings the Type of Robot We Will Have in Our Homes Soon

While Boston Dynamics is working on the type of robot that does an amazing job at either running as fast as a cheetah or carrying up to 400 lbs of weight while balancing on any type of terrain, LG has slightly different concerns when it comes to robotics.

Surely, LG’s Rolling Robot is not as capable as the Atlas, for example, but has much more realistic utility in your lives or mine than the former. And while the LG Rolling Bot has a lot more simplistic and small build, it does an equally great job at maintaining its balance too.

The LG Rolling Bot is a contraption that you may have seen earlier this year at CES 2016 if you were there for the show. While it can be used for a number of things, one use that most people who have seen it and even the designers themselves seem to agree on is the fact that the LG Rolling Bot can be used as a remote camera and ‘entertainer’ for your cat.

When you first set your eyes on it, you may feel like there’s an uncanny resemblance between it and BB-9 from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. But frankly, the only similarity is the motion mechanism they employ to move around. Although the name suggests it, the Rolling Bot doesn’t exactly roll, but instead uses a set of two wheels underneath it to move around. Similarly, you’d expect a spherical thing like that would use its own shape to its locomotive advantage but really, the robot’s position and facing will remain the same nearly all the time.

So what is the LG Rolling Bot good for? It features an 8 MP camera that can steer and move up, down, left or right to up to 15 degrees, giving you a way to look around whenever you need to. Thanks to the camera and inbuilt remote controls that you’d be using off of your smartphone, you can use it to check things around your home even when you’re away. Not to mention that thanks to a couple of embedded infrared remote sensors will let you set them up in order to control various home appliances such as lights, television sets or air conditioners.

The reason they say you can use this as a cat cam is because you can easily use the LG Rolling Bot as a home monitoring tool and if not that, a method to keep your pets entertained. With the use of the inbuilt microphone and stereo, you can straight up make your cats feel less lonely when you’re not there to provide them with the affection they need in person.

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I am a geek, a gamer and a writer. I have always been fascinated with the online community. At the moment I work as a full-time writer and study interior design. When I'm not scouring the net in search of interesting new gadgets and software I spend my time in MOBAs or drawing.