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VIA Pico-ITX at the Heart of Modern Robots |
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Written by Dragana Dimitrijevic
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Friday, 22 August 2008 |
VIA Technologies today showcased VIA EPIA Pico-ITX-based entertainment robots at the Taipei International Robot Show (TIROS), being held on 21-24 August at the World Trade Center in Taipei, Taiwan.
With robotics development representing the cutting edge of technological progress, VIA' commitment to extremely compact form factors, robust performance, extensive feature sets and extremely low power consumption means that VIA's off-the-shelf EPIA boards are becoming an essential component for academic, hobbyist and commercial robot developers.
At the VIA booth there will be three compact robots provided by PlayRobot, a Taiwan-based robot developer and distributor of educational, scientific and entertainment robots for government, academic and research institutes, as well as robot kits for enthusiasts (www.playrobot.com). One, the popular Johnny 5 robot, has been fitted for the show with the very latest Pico-ITX board, the VIA EPIA P700 featuring the VIA VX800 unified chipset.
"With our focus on miniaturization, feature integration and that all-critical power efficiency, VIA has been enabling the increasing versatility and mobility of robotics for some time," said Daniel Wu, Vice President of the VIA Embedded Platform Division, VIA Technologies, Inc. "VIA's processor platforms are quite literally at the heart of this new robotic age."
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