A Connecticut-based company is putting Swedish technology to work with a spherical robot called the Guardbot, designed for surveillance and rescue missions. While it's not yet commercially available, the rolling robot's developers say it's already attracting interest from a wide range of customers.





However, this is eerily like "The Rover" balloon in the 1960s series "The Prisoner":






A Connecticut-based company is putting Swedish technology to work with a spherical robot called the Guardbot, designed for surveillance and rescue missions. While it's not yet commercially available, the rolling robot's developers say it's already attracting interest from a wide range of customers.





However, this is eerily like "The Rover" balloon in the 1960s series "The Prisoner":






http://www.reuters.com/video/2011/12/12/guardbot-the-all-around-robot-sentry-of?videoId=226667415