Japanese companies Sanyo Electric and Tmsuk have developed a home robot that is capable of sensing intruders or smoke, and both sending that information to and being controlled by the owner's cell phone. The companies will start taking orders from next month and plan to initially sell 50 of the robots next year, they announced Wednesday.
The Banryu is 39.4 inches long, 31.5 inches tall, and 27.5 inches wide, and weighs 88 pounds. Its name in Japanese means a guarding dinosaur but it looks and moves more like a big bulldog with a pointed nose.
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