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Tuesday, 08 January 2008

WowWee Robotics RoboquadYet another great interactive and adaptive toy has caught not only our eyes, but also those interested in the toy of the year.  Meet the WowWee Robotics Roboquad, one of the leaders in the race for intelligent and adaptive toys.  The Roboquad is an animated robot with the ability to move in any direction and has an elaborate sensor array to maintain the highest levels of environmental awareness.  A behavioral system, coupled with the ability to learn (depending mood setting) allows the Roboquad to entertain for hours.  Take a look at this fantastic toy and watch a video of it in action!

 



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Product Description:

Roboquad is an animated robot with unique multi-directional movement capabilities and advanced sensory awareness. Featuring multi-colored flashing lights and techno sound effects, Roboquad is the first true robotic arthropod. Change his Awareness, Activity or Aggression levels to completely alter his personality and behaviors.

Guard - visually scans the environment; sound sensor detects noise.

Sleep - enters sleep mode after 5 minutes, powers down after 24 hours

2 built in demos - dance and movement

Programmable - up to 40 moves

Sleek and agile - rotating legs, articulated neck

Advanced movement control - Control direction Control style of walking (i.e., crab walk, stomp walk, rotation walking) Control head movements

Light sensor - headlights turn on and off and Roboquad will react depending upon ambient light levels

Sound sensor - reacts to sounds and scans for nearest object when disturbed (when stationary)

Autonomous mode - Interacts with his environment as he moves through it, scanning and avoiding obstacles

Behavior influenced by 3 controllable personality settings - Activity level Aggression level Awareness level

Deep IR scanner vision system Multiple scanning ranges. Used to assess distances and obstacles and influence behavior 5 scanning sequences

Smart scan - examines surroundings then reacts if anything changes; reacts according to aggression and activity levels. Scan left and scan right - will turn and face any object within a 3 foot range, on his left or right side.  Approach nearest object - looks left and right while ramping up the scanning range and moves towards the closest object found

Escape walk - will select the largest open space and move toward it

Flinch response - if an object approaches his scanner very quickly he will react, according to his aggression level.

Age grading - 8+ Battery requirements - 4 C and 3 AAA

Comments (2)Add Comment
crazy
written by Rick, January 15, 2008
That thing looks like it could take over or something! smilies/shocked.gif
Eek!
written by Brian, January 15, 2008
I for one welcome our crab-robot overlords.

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