- Cool multi-directional walking motion.
- Obstacle detection and avoidance.
- Head-ed LEDs.
- Vision system detects changes in ambient lighting.
- Amazon Exclusive.
- Advanced Awareness.
- Light Sensor.
- Sound Sensor.
- Personality Settings.
- Unique Movement.
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 . 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 modes, meanwhile, are
designed for downtime. In the former, the Roboquad visually scans
the environment and stays alert for noises, then es off
intruders with a series of crazy sound effects. In the latter,
the robot automatically falls a 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.