 
WowWee Robosapien V2 Full Function Humanoid Robot with Remote Control
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Made my son's dreams come true. What a cool robot.
My son dreamed of this for 2 years after seeing it in the public library books while reading about the histoy of robots.
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Our boy just loved this for his Christmas gift. The movement and range of controls and actions are so good he actually thinks the robot is alive. Costs a fair bit of money but consider this to be good value for money.
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I am the target demographic for this product: a robotics enthusiast with young children who need Christmas presents. I have been eyeing Robosapien with both excitement and skepticism since its 2003 release, and when I saw a new version had been released, I bought it on impulse.
I've been disappointed. Yes, it takes an evacuation team to get it out of the box and requires a small truck filled with batteries, but those aren't important. From my observation, the Robosapien walked poorly on both the hardwood flooring and carpeted surfaces in my house, barely inching forward in either case and jerking precariously all the while. It fell over during its dance and movement demonstrations (and then, to add insult to injury, cried "User error!"). Its interactive vision seemed spotty at best; it followed objects with its eyes, but would then stop and ask, "Where'd it go?" It never recognized faces, waves, etc.
Even assuming all of that had worked out, the functionality didn't deliver as promised. It has many cool motions and catchphrases, but they require complex remote control combinations to activate; they aren't automatic - or interactive - at all. That isn't educational, any more than a television remote that required a dozen keys to change channels would be; it's just frustrating.
In Robosapien's defense, the kids liked the little guy. It was far too complex for them to control - they don't have PhDs - but it was cute and funny.
Perhaps my Robosapien was defective; I returned it and decided to spend the money on better products. My feeling, however, is that this is a product whose time has not yet come; the technology just isn't there yet. Here's hoping it comes along soon!
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Well, I guess I cant give a full review of this product other than saying we spent nearly an hour removing it from the package with all the tape, glue, quad-wrapped 18-GA wire that was taped over and wrapped to plastic strip studs, and cleaning up the sea of wire snippets, huge sharp plastic packaging and taped-to-hell cardboard. I think I counted 100 inches of tape before I gave up. If anything needs a warranty, its this toy as you remove it from the rediculous packaging. A 10-year old would cut right through the Robosapien's wire harness on each arm maybe thinking they were packaging wires.
Eight D batteries and 7 AA batteries prevented us from playing with this toy tonight... $30 for name-brand alkalines won't do; I'm getting rechargeables despite the slightly lower voltage rating. I just hope his interest in it will be more than his Version 1 he got last year...he "fell on it" (whatever that means) after 2 days and destroyed it. Hopefully this is more durable than the V1
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I gave this toy to my eight year old grandson for Christmas. It was a joy to see his face light up with a great big grin as he removed the Christmas wrapping from the package. He started to take the package apart with all of the muscle he could muster up and it finally got the best of him. Then came his Uncle to his aid. My son is in his mid 30's and had a heck of a time getting the package apart also. Finally out came the knife to cut it apart and he was able to get all of the plastic packaging from around the robot. Whew...what a job that was, but still the robot was held fast to the inner package...out came the side cutters to cut the wires holding it and little by little he was able to free robo from it's bonds. In the mean time while all of this was going on...I saw that big grin that was on my grandsons face turn to disapointment. That was not a very happy moment for me I must say. I felt like I was the one that caused it buy getting him this robot.
Finally the batteries were installed and he got to play with it maybe 45 minutes after he first pulled off the wrapping paper.
It's a pretty cool toy for a kid and makes them think about how to get it to do the different tasks it can do.
My advice is if you are going to purchase this toy for someone else...take it out of the box first yourself. Give the kid a break.
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