The guys who brought us The Stonehenge clock are back with another interesting robot. RoboStool uses Parallax Propeller chip, and motor mount kit, to navigate. RoboStool can navigate in 3different ways- Using a pre-programmed path, beacon mode (controlled by remote control) and ‘Follow me’ mode (where the Robot simply follows the user using thermal sensors). Video after the jump.

In a continuing effort to create unique and unusual robots I just completed RoboStool – a robotic foot stool. Where would such an idea as a robot foot stool come from? I’m not really sure but one day while waiting for my wife to finish shopping in a Bed Bath and Beyond (and totally bored of course) I spied the ultimate in tacky furniture - a cubed shaped foot stool covered in the finest of brown vinyl. At that moment it occurred to me that this foot stool was just begging to be automated. And thus began the RoboStool project.

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