HERO (robot)

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HERO was the name of several hobby robots sold by Heathkit during the 1980s. Models included the HERO 1, HERO Jr., and HERO 2000.

HERO 1 was a self-contained mobile robot controlled by an onboard computer with a 6808 CPU and 4k of RAM. The robot featured light, sound, and motion detectors as well as a sonar ranging sensor. An optional arm mechanism was available.

A smaller version of HERO was released later, called HERO Jr. Like HERO 1, HERO Jr. had a 6808 processor, but only 2k of RAM.

The much more powerful HERO 2000 included several onboard microprocessors, onboard speech synthesis, several sensors, and the ability to add expansion cards using a passive backplane.

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