Description
Firmware for a companion robot sold for home use from 2002, read from a unit retired by its owners.
Provenance
Donated with the machine it was used on. The controller had failed, so the memory chip was removed and read directly. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
1312e74918fa8645a964eec2c834e5c6a6897915f713d242ad1ca19e9906c1c8- Last verified
- Oct 19, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-ROBOT-2 · lz-mcu core
- Copies
- Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
- Original carriers
- Kept in cold storage in Vancouver
Access
Free, in reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-ROBOT-2, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on household robots.
Cite as: Harrow Robotics, Harrow companion robot: firmware 4.7 (2002). Lazarus Archive, LZ-04296.