# The Sheldon-bot has become a reality. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 9, 2012, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sheldon-bot-has-become-a-reality/624622 "2012-06-09T15:11:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sheldon-bot-has-become-a-reality/624622/1 "2012-06-09T15:11:09Z")
[Pretty cool.](http://www.irobot.com/ava/) Imagine walking in to Home Depot and having one of these things help you out. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sheldon-bot-has-become-a-reality/624622/2 "2012-06-09T15:59:57Z")
Seeing as how Iā€™m in Home Depot every other day and most of the employees donā€™t know shit, yeah I can imagine it. Very cool. . ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sheldon-bot-has-become-a-reality/624622/3 "2012-06-09T16:29:54Z")
Great, but what does it actually do? Go around saying, ā€œDanger Will Smith!ā€? [QUOTE=First Page of Website] Autonomous navigation for independent, proactive point-to-point navigation. Functional The right balance of features and robustness integrated in meaningful and productive ways. Affordable A highly accessible development platform for business or consumer applications. Robust Comprehensive sensor arrays (laser, sonar, and 2D/3Dimaging) providing complete autonomous navigation. [/quote] This page reads like a ā€œmarketingā€ website, selling you a virtual pig in a cyber poke. Not that I doubt the usefulness of the thing. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sheldon-bot-has-become-a-reality/624622/4 "2012-06-09T16:34:19Z")
iRobot is the company that developed the Roomba. Iā€™ll take two. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sheldon-bot-has-become-a-reality/624622/5 "2012-06-09T16:39:53Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > Great, but what does it actually do? Go around saying, ā€œDanger Will Smith!ā€?This page reads like a ā€œmarketingā€ website, selling you a virtual pig in a cyber poke. Not that I doubt the usefulness of the thing. The site appears to be broken but there is a tab labled ā€˜potential applicationsā€™ that would normally give you a whole list of things it could or can do. Some of which are: Customer service attendants at big lot stores. Donā€™t know where the 1/4" PCV pipe is at? Just ask the robot. Remote doctors: Doctors can log into the bot and examine people from half a world away or three floors down. Security patrol. The options are limited to your own imagination really. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sheldon-bot-has-become-a-reality/624622/6 "2012-06-09T17:26:54Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > Great, but what does it actually do? Go around saying, ā€œDanger Will Smith!ā€?This page reads like a ā€œmarketingā€ website, selling you a virtual pig in a cyber poke. Not that I doubt the usefulness of the thing. [nitpick]Will Robinson[/nitpick] ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sheldon-bot-has-become-a-reality/624622/7 "2012-06-09T17:31:10Z")
Fresh Robot of Bel-Air ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sheldon-bot-has-become-a-reality/624622/8 "2012-06-09T17:32:54Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > [nitpick]Will Robinson[/nitpick] Heh, Will Smith played in I Robot. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sheldon-bot-has-become-a-reality/624622/9 "2012-06-09T17:52:02Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > iRobot is the company that developed the Roomba. > > Iā€™ll take two. I dunnoā€¦that thing will never fit under the couchā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sheldon-bot-has-become-a-reality/624622/10 "2012-06-09T19:37:43Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > Great, but what does it actually do? Go around saying, ā€œDanger Will Smith!ā€?This page reads like a ā€œmarketingā€ website, selling you a virtual pig in a cyber poke. Not that I doubt the usefulness of the thing. Itā€™s a development platform. In other words, you buy the thing so that you can develop your own applications. I wonder what it costs. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2012, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sheldon-bot-has-become-a-reality/624622/11 "2012-06-09T19:56:46Z")
Itā€™s an iPad with wheels. The illustrations and descriptions in the ā€œpotential applicationsā€ bear this out. There is no actual interaction whatsoever, it just rolls around and can connect to the net. One of their applications is ā€œCollaborative Work: Collaborate with enterprise colleagues through Remote Telepresence without having to travel to another office locationā€. Thatā€™s not exactly ground breaking. Itā€™s just an iPad with wheels. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2012, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sheldon-bot-has-become-a-reality/624622/12 "2012-06-10T09:07:01Z")
We have a remote camera for evaluating stroke pts in th ER while the neurologist is somewhere else entirely, granted itā€™s not automated, but we call it **Sheldon**. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2012, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sheldon-bot-has-become-a-reality/624622/13 "2012-06-16T12:59:57Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > Itā€™s an iPad with wheels. > > The illustrations and descriptions in the ā€œpotential applicationsā€ bear this out. There is no actual interaction whatsoever, it just rolls around and can connect to the net. One of their applications is ā€œCollaborative Work: Collaborate with enterprise colleagues through Remote Telepresence without having to travel to another office locationā€. Thatā€™s not exactly ground breaking. Itā€™s just an iPad with wheels. Wheels that can be remotely or programatically controlled. Itā€™s closer to putting an iPad on a Romba/Lego robot.