Intel Futurist Shows How You’ll Download and Program Your Own Robot Next Year

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So here’s a crazy idea that, when you think about it a bit, really isn’t so crazy anymore. If you could build your own robot, what would you have it do?

If you’re the type who’s into building stuff and coding, you may soon get your chance, courtesy of an interesting project coming from the labs of chipmaker Intel.

The company’s futurist, Brian David Johnson (whom I interviewed a couple years ago) is in New York this weekend at the Maker Faire. He’s here to let folks get a look at Jimmy, an open source robot assembled from parts fabricated on a 3-D printer. He showed off Jimmy — or at least a non-working model of Jimmy — on CBS’s Saturday Morning today. (Video below.)

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