Talk:HERO (robot)

Shouldn't we include coverage of which of the robots had arms? If I remember correctly, the earlier (and more expensive) robots had arms but the Jr. did not (they deemed its AI inadequate to make cost-effective use of an arm). Sarsaparilla (talk) 02:07, 31 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

• Robert Doerr of HERO, Robert owns both the trademark "HERO" name and Heath's former HERO inventory. He also works on other personal robots of the period (1970', 80's) and has pages on their history as well.

• THE ROBOT INVASION, By Scott Stuckey, Page 30-33 & Page 78 ,Boys' Life, Dec 1984
  • Hero 1 - Kit US$1500 / Assembled US$2500 / About 10,000 sold up until Dec 1984 / Requires 70 hours of soldering and assembly
  • Hero Jr - Kit US$ / Assembled US$1000 / Released several weeks after the robot show(International Personal Robot Congress & Exhibition, April 1984) and before the summer consumer show in Chicago( ?May? 1984 ) / Infrared sensor option US$250 / Wayne Wilson^[1] was in charge of developing Hero Jr.

• They had about 8 years of sales and 4,000 Hero Jr's. / The HERO 1 and HERO JR both share a common version of Wintek Tiny BASIC with the only difference being the extra support for the Arm commands on the HERO 1. / ^[2][3]

• The LIMBO Project, Part 1, By Bob Nansel Page 8-11 , MICRO CORNRUCOPIA, #47, May-June 1989, The Eighties: The eighties were the boom years. Heathkit introduced its educational robot, the Hero-I, in '83, the Hero Junior in '85, and the superb Hero-2000 in '86. Robots even had their own magazines - for a while anyway. & The shakeout began in '84, and now, in 1989, only Heathkit markets a personal robot, the Hero-2000.
  • Robots even had their own magazines : REMARK Heath Zenith User Group Magazine^{[4][5][6][7][8]}
  • Hero-Gram - Newsletter of the Hero Resource Exchange, originally produced by Walter Glod.

Hero 1

• Homes'll be more happy with more muscular HERO, By Doug Clapp, Page 45, InfoWorld, 11 Apr 1983

• 30 Days with HERO-1, By Neil Shapiro, Page 74-75 & 141, Popular Mechanics, Sep 1983

• On The Road With Fred D'lgnazio, There's A Robot In My Room, COMPUTE! ISSUE 41 / OCTOBER 1983 / PAGE 108

• Robot is a teacher, By Harvey Enchin, Page 28, The Montreal Gazette, May 24, 1983, Hero I, Heath Co.'s first entry into robotics is the only educational robot on the market, the company says. It took three years and $1 million to develop. "The robot population is already 7,000." says Georges Girad, Montreal Heathkit store manager. "By 1991, we expect there will be 100,000."

• Creating a mobile autonomous robot research system (MARRS) Thesis: Thomas E. Clifford, Huburt G. Schneider, AFT/GE/ENG/84D-19, December 1984, What could the AFIT HERO-1 Robot do

• Fulcher, John, Down-line loading on hero robot, Department of Computing Science, University of Wollongong, Working Paper 84-13, 1984, 39p.

• My "Hero" Robots - about HERO-1 and mentions HERO 2000

• (German)Heath-Zenith HERO 1, 8-Bit-Nirvana

• Votrax SC-01 to SpeakJet Translator, By Robert Doerr, Page 31-35, SERVO, December 2007, HERO-1 gets a new voice

• FR3DDY, Rick Taylor, September 8, 2012, What's this button do? Blog, Hero-1 Wireless upgrade & programming the robot in python

• Man's New Best Friend Is a Walking, Talking, Singing Robot-in-a-Kit Named Hero, By Julie Greenwalt, March 28, 1983, Vol. 19, No. 12, PEOPLE magazine

Hero Jr

• New robot has the personality of a dynamic workaholic, By Jeffery Fraser, The Pittsburgh Press - Jun 17, 1985, Hero Jr

• Advert: INTRODUCING HERO JR. The world's first pre-programmed robot, The Pittsburgh Press, Nov 28, 1984

• Sims, Patricia, "Basic Robotics Curriculum: An Introductionary Unit for Junior High School Students" (1987).UNF Theses and Dissertations.Paper 52.

• Remembering old friends "Theodore", By Kent, December 28, 2007, Technology New and Old, HERO Jr!
• Theo - again, By Kent, December 28, 2007, Technology New and Old, talking head for HERO Jr!

• The Hero-Jr Download Source, - System ROM code in ASM (disassembally by Ron DeHaemers)

Hero 2000

• A semi-autonomous mobile robot/teleoperator with applications as an aid for severely handicapped people, MA Regalbuto - 1990, Modified HERO 2000

• A robot nuclear application DOI: 10.1109/NRSC.2000.838976, HERO 2000

• Ambler: an autonomous rover for planetary exploration, June 1989, Page 18-26, Computer IEEE, The other testbed is a Heathkit Hero. 2000, a commercially available robot, which we are using to explore ideas for combining navigation and sample collection

HE-roBOT

• Heathkit's son of HERO surfaces 20 years later, December 30, 2007, By MICHAEL ELIASOHN, The Herald Palladium Lori Marciniak, president and chief executive officer of Heathkit Educational Systems.In December 1982, the Heath Co. introduced HERO I

• Hero 1 with arm showing and control pendant

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