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| Roboquad | 
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| Brand: Character Options
Category: Toy
Buy New: £59.99 (On sale from £79.99)
You Save: £20.00 (25%)
New (6) from £59.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 13295
Platform: Not Machine Specific
Media: Electronics
Fragile: No
Batteries: 4
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.5
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 12.5 x 9
MPN: 008039
Model: 8039
UPC: 771171180395
EAN: 0771171180395
ASIN: B000OF50M4
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Product Description
We know you're not Tom Cruise and it's not the 2050s, but you can still imagine the famous scene from Minority Report - you know, the one where he's hiding from spidery tracker robots by submerging in the bath - with the help of the simply amazing Roboquad. Roboquad is a genuine first on a good many levels. It's the first true robotic arthropod - that's the family of animals including spiders and crustaceans - with many elements in common with the Mars robots designed by its inventor, pioneering NASA scientist Mark Tilden. Put basically, Roboquad is a highly evolved animated robot with unique multi-directional motion functionality and advanced sensory awareness. It sees. It hears. And it moves accordingly. But there's much more besides. Embodying the bleeding-edge BEAM technology of its stable-mates the Robosapiens, Roboraptor and Roboreptile, it does away with the frankly clumsy CPU-based processing of old and instead models its behaviour on more complex organic lifeforms (th you and me). All of which enables this unique Quad to perform a simply mind-boggling set of 72 pre-programmed functions controlled from a 4-layer remote. You can also thoroughly modify his personality and behaviour by altering his awareness, activity and aggression levels. Or just leave him be. And he'll explore his environment with practically no input from the outside world. Now that's what we call clever.
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Fun. But not for younger children. December 10, 2007
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Don't get me wrong, this is a lot of fun and okay for the age ranges advertised. But it is isn't fast or zippy enough to appeal to younger kids (under 10s, I think).
At the moment, the price tag of 35 (down from 70 originally!) is spot on and makes this good value. It is programmable, but few are likely to experiment much with it, due to the clunky (ie. simple) interface on the controller. Most of the fun is to be had from the demos, direct manual control as well as the 'autonomous' mode; all via the basic and fairly robust controller.
The Roboquad itself does have limitations, even beyond some which I had forseen. It doesn't function optimally on soft surfaces (eg. carpet) and naturally will have similar problems with hard but slippery surfaces. So it's a bit fussy there, 'firm' surfaces are best. However, the sensors are reasonable and operate quite well according to settings via the controller. Similar levels of sensitivity/activity can be allocated to 'agression' and 'activity', to allow at least a little variety to it's operation when 'autonomous'.
Killer feature? When my wife tried to "shoo" it away with her foot, it screamed and shook its head vigorously. Now, I know it was responding 'visually' to something being too close, but as far as kids were concerned it was a smelly feet joke. Worth it alone for the laughs had at the time!
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