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WowWee Robotics Roboquad | 
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| Brand: Sourcing Network Sales
Category: CE
List Price: $89.99
Buy New: $39.97
You Save: $50.02 (56%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 320
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
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Advanced Awareness | | • | Light Sensor | | • | Sound Sensor | | • | Personality Settings | | • | Unique Movement |
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Amazon.com Product Description
Liven up your living room with the Roboquad, a four-legged, spider-like robot with unprecedented mobility and awareness. The Roboquad is designed with advanced sensory awareness, helping it react quickly to the surrounding environment and pursue a moving object in any direction, including forward, backwards, and sideways. When an object such as a cat or a remote control car passes, the robot's head swivels around so it can monitor its environment without moving. After it sweeps the room with a tightly focused infrared beam, it makes rapid decisions about how to react to its environment. Once it identifies the object--the sensitive infrared detector can see objects as far as 13 feet away while also identifying their size and spatial details--the Roboquad heads out in one of three speeds, navigating through doorways and detecting table edges in the process. Your cat will meow in amazement, as will your guests. 
The 4-legged, spider-like Roboquad can pursue a moving object forward, backwards, and sideways. | The robot offers five scanning sequences: a Smart Scan, which examines the surroundings and then reacts if anything changes; Scan Left and Scan Right, where the robot turns and faces any object within a 3-foot range; Approach Nearest Object, during which the robot looks left and right while ramping up the scanning range, and then moves toward the closest object found; Escape Walk, where the robot selects the largest open space and moves toward it; and Flinch Response, which helps the robot respond to quickly approaching objects. In addition, many of the Roboquad's decisions are based on its three controllable personality settings, one each for awareness, activity, and aggression. A more aggressive Roboquad will react quicker to approaching objects than a mellower Roboquad, for example. The robotic arthropod offers more than just movement, however, with multicolored flashing lights and techno sound effects. The Roboquad also boasts four usage modes: Direct Control, Autonomous, Guard, and Sleep. Direct Control mode invites you to control the robot's direction, style of walking (such as crab walk, stomp walk, or rotation walking), and head movements, while in Autonomous mode, the robot interacts with his environment as he moves through it. Guard and Sleep modes, meanwhile, are designed for downtime. In the former, the Roboquad visually scans the environment and stays alert for noises, then scares off intruders with a series of crazy sound effects. In the latter, the robot automatically falls asleep after five minutes of inactivity and then powers down after 24 hours. 
The Roboquad's sensitive infrared scanner helps it navigate through doorways and detect table edges. | The robot owes its imaginative movements to its agile rotating legs and articulated neck, all of which respond to the machine's advanced artificial intelligence. And watch out when the Roboquad feels like getting down, as the machine includes a built-in dance demo along with a more traditional movement demo. Other details include 72 preprogrammed functions, up to 40 programmable moves, a built-in light sensor that reacts differently based on the ambient light, and a four-layer, full-function remote control. The Roboquad, which is designed for children ages eight and older, requires four C and three AAA batteries (not included) and measures 8.5 by 9 by 12.5 inches (W x H x D). It's also backed by a 90-day warranty. What's in the Box
Roboquad, remote control, user's manual.
Product Description
Roboquad is an inquisitive robot with unique movements and an advanced sensor array. You can completely alter his personality and behavior by changing his awareness, activity and aggression fields. The full-function remote comes complete with 68 different functions, and he'll react in extraordinary ways. Roboquad even has an extended battery life for prolonged missions. Requires 4 "C" and 3 "AAA" batteries, not included. Features: - Remote Controller - 68 function, illuminated remote controls Roboquad's movements and behavior
- Advanced Awareness - Roboquad is more aware than any other robot thanks to his IR scanner and advanced A.I. Able to spot movement from up to 6 feet away, he can also search for and navigate doorways, and detect table edges
- Light Sensor - When the light goes out, Roboquad keeps going, turning on his head-mounted LEDs. His reactions and behaviors change as darkness falls
- Sound Sensor - Roboquad reacts to sound by quickly scanning his environment for intruders
- Personality Settings - Control Roboquad's autonomous behavior and the way he reacts to your presence by setting the Awareness, Activity or Aggression states to low, medium or high using the controller
- State of Awareness - Roboquad's awareness level affects the amount of information he processes through his sensors: at higher levels, he'll see everything and spend more time in active scanning routines
- State of Aggression - His aggression level affects his reaction to sensory input: high levels make him more angry and aggressive, and low levels make him more nervous and shy
- State of Activity - At high activity levels, Roboquad will be more active and travel further distances and at faster speeds
- Unique Movement - Roboquad's state and level settings influence his unique movements. Leave him in autonomous mode to swarm around his environment, or use the remote to control him directly
- Measures 12"L x
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 excellent little "robot" October 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My wife and kids bought me the red roboquad for my birthday this year. I think it's an incredibly entertaining toy. I'm 26 years old and I've been interested in robots for a long time, so maybe that skews my perspective a little, but I was incredibly eager to see what this thing could do.
I found it incredibly easy to navigate the basic controls. For more advanced features you'll need to give the control manual a once over, or just play with the remote for a while.
I've played with the robosapien before and have to say I prefer this model hands down. It's movement is way better, it can move in almost any direction fairly instantaneously. It does have some forms of movement to help it get past large obstacles, but you need to control it yourself to activate them, it won't initiate those movements on its own.
Some reviewers have complained about the autonomous modes, I found it incredibly enjoyable. We have several kittens, and at one point, the roboquad had locked onto one of the kittens and was following it around the living room. They really seemed to enjoy it. I was very impressed with its sensitivity to objects and obstacles, watching it scan its path and decide the best route is entertaining. of course it has other pre-programmed functions to make it wave, dance, roar, etc. but I do enjoy the autonomous exploration, and with the different levels of awareness, aggressiveness, etc. you can get some different results each time.
As I said earlier the roboquad does have movements you can initiate to get over large obstacles, but it's not something it will do on its own. It might be nice if it lifted its legs higher, or had another point of articulation, but for the price, and other features it offers I was very impressed with what it could do.
As the review started, I thoroughly enjoyed this gift and think it's an excellent little "robot" I'd call it a great birthday present.
 cute toy that has video instructions October 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My husband bought RoboQuad for himself (we don't have kids). It looked too cute and shiny in its box. Getting it out of the box was an adventure - it was secured with so many straps that it took him a while. I am not sure why it needs to be secured so much since it doesn't not come with the batteries.
We made a video on some of the functions of RoboQuad on HandBookLive.com (under Toys). The instructions that came with the toy were confusing. My husband never read them and just poked the remote control hoping for the best. Maybe kids catch on quicker, but we just used the Demo button a lot :) and simple navigation - Forward, Back, Left and Right. It kept my husband's interest for 2 days. You can watch the video on HandBookLive.com to see what the Robot does, and whether you would want to buy it or not. Hope this helps.
What a great toy July 31, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
You won't be able to clean your floors, and you won't be able to have it serve you drinks, but the Roboquad will provide you with hours of fun. But not for long periods of time, and not spontaneously. Unfortunately, this guy has an on/off switch, and he doesn't go into any sort of rest power saving mode. And although you are able to program him, your instructions are lost when you turn him off. BUT, he is still fun to play with, and he is especially entertaining to the cats and dog. They just aren't sure what to make of the noisy creature that slowly "chases" him around the room. If you have some play money, and just want something fun to goof around with occasionally, then this is the toy. Have fun
roboquad July 22, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Seems to have arrived in good condition. I find the manual a little confusing. I'll have to spend some more time with it before I can give it a more detailed rating.
Roboquad is just plain cool to watch! June 23, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I love Gadgets, but robotic toys have always been a letdown. They did not really live up to my expectations. I had a Robotic Dog that took so long getting through the startup process, the batteries were almost fully depleted by the time you really got to play with it. Quad is different...He is fun to watch, and examines everything! He does need a lot of room, but he is my favorate robot yet. you could even mount a wireless camera on his head and have him roam around the house recording!
The robot also does a pretty cool demo dance! When I bought him, it was about $80.00..a little high....now, I think the price is well worth it. I love seeing how each generation of robots gets better and better and Roboquad shows that the trend continues!
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