Nov 13, 2007 7:37 PM

One Autonomous Household Robot Per Child

Found via Gizmodo today is something likely to become a weekend project for Geekdad founder Chris Anderson: a Roomba being controlled remotely through the web with one of the One Laptop Per Child project’s laptops.

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