It seems Toshiba just can’t get enough of making robots. Now they have developed a universal remote buddy, which is pretty much a robot. He picks up on IR signals from remote controls and learns them. By asking you what you were doing when you used the remote he adapts to all your IR devices. From what I understand you can tell him what to do (after he has learnt it) by talking to him and he’ll swing out one of his cute little arms, which has an IR transmitter built in, and aim it at whatever gadget you want to control.

More about this at Gizmodo

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