Sorry. Not impressed with a robot with wheels vs legs Yea, it looks cool, but it seems like a step backwards.

that's a far more reasonable price than I would have assumed on viewing it.

esspecially considering how expensive the robosapien is.

Now when will someone hack a wiimote/sixaxis to control this guy?

@nosauten:
Until they can engineer legs than can actually bend at the knees and climb things for the same general price point as the robosapien series than actually going to wheeled makes far more sense.

Why would something supposedly futuristic be horribly uncordinated and slow with a task as simple as walking?

Remember these are essentially toys geared for the 8-14 set and robosapiens are slow and clumbsy where this looks like it can move pretty quickly.

Is it me or does this look like the robot from Ulysses 31?

Go ahead. Make fun of it. It can move and move fast. You won't be laughing when the robot rips out your spine during the upcoming robot uprising.

Huh. These guys seem to like using three wheels for movement (see there other thing in a later post)... It's weird how two of the wheels can move without jamming each other or something, though.

after a couple minutes of wise cracking shitty jokes...we'll all be asking... "will it blend?"

and it doesn't have an iPod dock on its crotch?
for shame

@REILAOS : The wheel system is generally known as a Killough platform so that you can achieve holonomic movement. OK I have no idea what it means either I copied that bit from wikipedioa.

They work well as 3 or 4 wheel configs