The 914 PC-BOT is the first general service robot designed for digital life in the home, at work and at school.

A robot designed for teachers, researchers, engineers and legacy system developers who need to front real-world applications and robotics projects with a digital face.

Designed to fit digital life, bringing data and processing to the point of human contact.

It's a host computer, it's a web server, it has an 80Gb hard drive...have fun!

914 PC-BOT Development Environments

914 Extreme PC-BOT Windows .NET version






There are five PC-BOT components for Visual Studio 2005. Drive, Messages, Sensors, M3, and ToolBar. A Visual Studio Developer can drag and drop these components in to any Windows forms project. The developer may write their code in any of the .NET supported languages (Visual Basic, C#, J#, C++).

914 PC-BOT Linux Player/Stage





Player is a network server for robot control. Installed on your robot, Player provides an elegant and simple interface to the robot's sensors and actuators over IP networks. The Player server software provides an abstract interface to multiple robotic devices, including mobile robot bases, sensors, etc as well as your 914 PC-BOT.

About PC-BOTs

Traditional robots tend to fall into two camps - small, inexpensive, non human-friendly and needing a host computer – or – they are massive, sometimes static, oftentimes expensive and they still need a host computer.  Typified as automated toys running simple programs performing repetitive and/or single applications or large industrial units performing relatively complex programs or jobs.

While all these units fit the scientific definition of a robot, they fall short of fitting the average person’s mental picture of what a robot should be.

The 914 PC-BOT, by comparison, is a host computer.  A visually stunning unit designed to evoke an emotional response and engineered to meet the average person’s idea of what a robot should look like.  Not only that, the 914 PC-BOT is presented to the market as a richly featured researchers, advanced-technology teachers or system developers, robot engineered out of industry standard hardware and industry standard software.