The RB5X is a
personal robot
A personal robot is one whose human interface and design make it useful for individuals. This is by contrast to industrial robots which are generally configured and operated by robotics specialists. A personal robot is one that enables an indivi ...
manufactured by RB Robot Corporation of
Golden, Colorado
Golden is a home rule city that is the county seat of Jefferson County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 20,399 at the 2020 United States census. Golden lies along Clear Creek at the base of the Front Range of the Rocky Moun ...
.
A cylinder-shaped robot with an optional arm, and a transparent, dome-shaped top, RB5X has an
RS-232
In telecommunications, RS-232 or Recommended Standard 232 is a standard introduced in 1960 for serial communication transmission of data. It formally defines signals connecting between a ''DTE'' (''data terminal equipment'') such as a compu ...
communications interface and is programmable in
TinyBASIC
Tiny BASIC is a family of dialects of the BASIC programming language that can fit into 4 or fewer KBs of memory. Tiny BASIC was designed by Dennis Allison and the People's Computer Company (PCC) in response to the open letter published by Bill G ...
or Savvy.
It was first released circa 1983. Its inputs include eight bumper panels, a
photodiode
A photodiode is a semiconductor diode sensitive to photon radiation, such as visible light, infrared or ultraviolet radiation, X-rays and gamma rays. It produces an electrical current when it absorbs photons. This can be used for detection and me ...
and a
sonic transducer. The robot learns from experience.
The RB5X was an early commercial implementation of the concept of autonomous mobile robotics (AMR) proposed and demonstrated by author/inventor, David L. Heiserman
in 1976.
References
External links
* https://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/12/garden/past-and-present-robots-gather-for-exhibition.html
* http://ww.theoldrobots.com/rb5x.html
* http://www.rbrobotics.com/
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