Description
Firmware for a companion robot sold for home use from 2018, read from a unit retired by its owners.
Provenance
Found in a school storeroom when the building was cleared. Contacts were cleaned before reading. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
59290bb4eeab2a20969c78ecd2da13845e107242dc5c88029db0f4017ca9cef0- Last verified
- Oct 20, 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 the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms.
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: Whimbrel Robotics, Whimbrel companion robot: firmware 3.2 (2018). Lazarus Archive, LZ-41151.