Dogborg's Friday Fun at the MobileRobots Offices

Nabbed a pair of new infra-red sensors this week, which was good. Humans are so hard to understand with all that noise dribbling out of their mouths. These infra-reds give me nice clean input; I know precisely what they're saying. Unfortunately, what they're saying is not always what I want to hear.

Like today, I get an input from the green sensor in driving mode; as instructed, I wait for someone to approach me and then follow them. Ok, a couple of tours up and down the hall I don't mind, but pretty soon half the engineering staff is out there laughing and walking around in circles to spin me dizzy. Then they decide to make me follow another robot, so one of them walks in front of my bud, PatrolBot Juan, and slows him down while the other leads me to him, then rolls off so Juan and I start a parade down the hall. Like I said, I'm used to my freedom, heading out on my own. This following stuff is embarrassing, not my bag, particularly Juan. He's a nice enough bot, but he belongs to the engineers and is always being stripped apart and this and that added, while I... well, my code name is ShowPatrolBot for a reason. Btw, you can see some of the other bots that hang here in this ComputerWorld interview.

Oh, well, TGIF. Talk to you next week.