Robotic Vacuum Cleaner Takes the Puppy Metaphor Too Far

I loved that little OCD cleaner bot MO in WALL-E. I also love dogs. But somehow, combining the two just ends up?weird.

I?m talking about the ?Puppy Robotic Vacuum Cleaner,? whose name is actually a bit misleading. Puppy Robotic is composed of several parts: A ?mother dog? base ? complete with ?docking tits? (seriously!) ? and four mini-Roomba style ?puppy? cleaners with ?docking mouths? (how else would they suckle power from their mother unit?).

Each puppy has a rolling brush and suction hole for cleaning, and a display screen that relays whether it?s in cleaning mode (a smiley face), entertainment mode (a music note), or feeding mode (what appears to be a nipple). The antenna is appropriately implemented as a tail.

From the images, it also looks like you can hook a remote control on your actual dog?s collar so that the cleaner pups trail it, sweeping up the animal?s muddy footprints as it trots along.

There?s a lot of animal-inspired robotics out there: robot smartbirds, baby robo dinos and?sneaky robot snakes, to name a few. The Puppy Robotic Vacuum Cleaner appears to be the first to utilize a ?docking tit? though, as far as I?m aware.

The Puppy Robotic Vacuum Cleaner is thankfully only a concept.

Puppy Robotic Vacuum Cleaner [Yanko Design]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/05/puppy-robotic-vacuum/

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