Description
Firmware for a companion robot sold for home use from 2009, read from a unit retired by its owners.
Provenance
Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. The card had sat unpowered for years; it was read at low voltage, several times. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
0ac43b172b5ed750c5ec6fd837b85295c26678bcff995b4cad947e70cfba5be1- Last verified
- Sep 4, 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: Meridian Robotics, Meridian companion robot: firmware 5.3 (2009). Lazarus Archive, LZ-15272.