CES Video: Replace Your Guard Dog With a Wi-Fi Robot

Probably the most ambitious WowWee robot to date, the Rovio telepresence robot streams live video footage from its onboard camera over a Wi-Fi connection to a laptop or smartphone near you. That means you can keep an eye on your home when you're nowhere near it.

The three-wheeled robot is small but mighty; it packs an in-home GPS system called Northstar, sensors that keep it from bumping into furniture and walls, and you can program it to roam around in pre-set routes. It even scrambles back to its recharging station when it's low on juice. The $300 robot is slated to be available this summer.

WowWee CTO Davin Sufer put Rovio through its paces on the show floor at CES, and I had a video camera handy. The results were robo-tacular.

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