Fuji Soft and their PALRO robot

The PALRO robot (pal and robot thrown in together) from Fuji Soft looks pretty cool – after all, it will merge both Fuji Soft’s software capabilities with an open architecture that offers developers a whole lot of room to play with. PALRO is a mere 15″ tall, tipping the scales at an extremely lightweight 1.9kg. Interesting enough, he won’t cost a bomb at $3.300, featuring a built-in camera, microphones, speakers, an LED array with an Intel Atom 1.6GHz processor running the proceedings from within. When compared to Vstone’s Robovie-PC which is $1,100 more expensive and misses out on a fancy exoskeleton, the PALRO certainly seems like more than a decent bargain.