The Sony PS3 could get an add-on game-playing robot, if a recently-unearthed patent application is to be believed. The patent application, from Sony Computer Entertainment, was filed last June, for a wheeled robot with a camera, microphone that reacts to a gamer’s voice and speaker, plus other sensors.
The Sony PS3 robot is designed to trundle around your living room, detecting its surroundings and presumably display them on your TV, while you somehow interact with the robot in a videogame format.
The Sony PS3 robot pal also, according to the patent, could have acceleration, gyroscopic and possibly GPS location sensors. The patent also details how the robot could respond to a gamer’s commands despite the view of the robot being different from the view of the gamer (perhaps it can recognise pets as enemies and laser-zap them in-game?)
Sony’s PS3 robot patent comes after we exclusively revealed that Nintendo were planning their own Wii-remake of the classic NES Robotic Operating Buddy (R.O.B.). (Note: our world exclusive on the R.O.B. originally appeared 1 April 2008.)
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