Description
Firmware for a companion robot sold for home use from 2000, read from a unit retired by its owners.
Provenance
Transferred from the backlog of unread media at a partner archive. The chips were read several times in a programmer; one differing bit was resolved by majority. Every sector was recovered on the first or second read.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
c2f456f1fea7e0ae7976500f083547c2abe9f226180d0c30386ea197eb4cf97f- Last verified
- Sep 30, 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: Pylon Robotics, Pylon companion robot: firmware 4.3 (2000). Lazarus Archive, LZ-05030.