Hitec Robotics

Hitec Robotics - Saw this on one of the gizmodo's CeBIT feed. It's looks kinda cool. Programmable robot with IDE support for scripting the robots behaviour.

Software provides three programming levels: Robo-Script / Remocon both have GUI support, where you can click on servos and modify them to create event-based behaviours. You can also hierarchically create composite behaviours by assembling simple behaviours together. Excellent. You can also program at the Robo-Basic level (hey how retro) - which allows you more control over directly controlling servos (controlling motion, processing feedback).

The servos themselves seem pretty nice with reliable 3-D yaw and roll re-calibration built-in.

But the price! €869-€1049 - and no shipping to Ireland.

Now if it only wasn't 9 months till Xmas... oh I know - Happy Spring Equinox!