I just figured that if I babysat the bot full time for two months, I could offer control of it at $1 / minute as the kickstarter project reward. Does that seem like a steep price though?

I'm in Japan so that might make it a bit more interesting. I'm concerned that the most interesting places wouldn't have a WiFi connection though, so I couldn't take the bot around temples or gardens. It needs 600kB/s upstream to work, I wonder if there's a way to get a mobile connection like that and share it to the anybot as a hotspot.

Update: Oh, it's US only for now.

They're marketing it to businesses as a replacement for traveling somewhere -- $15,000 isn't a lot to pay for that. If it lets one executive skip one trip, it's paid for itself.