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more about #roboticsinstitute more comments → Margatron: "first real robot for girls." is a totally false statement. They're 20 years too late. I had a Teddy Ruxpin and loved it. As far as I knew, it respon... more » popepeter: "Penbo responds differently to different color babies" So the Penbo is racist? more » TonyTriple: Boys: Aw cool! A robot that activates on voice command and shoots lasers! Girl: Aw cool! A robot that...activates on touch...and shoots...babies? Whe... more » PurplePenguin04: If they make one in purple I'd be begging my wife to let me buy one. more » Richard Charles Hudson: Never mind the boys vs girls issue - why does the robot penguin give birth to a hedgehog?? more » bosskev: Penbo, an adorable interactive and waddling penguin robot who surprises little girls when she lays an egg...a perfect robot companion for little girls... more » 92BuickLeSabre: Really? For girls?I'm not sure which is more irritating, the idea that a girl would naturally be drawn to this because it's pink and has babies or th... more » Hiphopopotamus: That's right kids... the difference between things made for boys and things made for girls is their ability to ovulate. So for those keeping score - ... more » burninator: How smart could this robot be if its already knocked up. more » Nutchromeo: Fast AND he kind of looks like Optimus Primal meets Bumblebee. more » Jestermeister: Is this really considered bipedal just because there are leg-like things that pop in and out? The wheels disguised as arms don't really make it any m... more » met2art: What about Robosapien (v1 and v2)? Does it not count as a bipedal robot? And seriously, "To make this kind of technology available to children is unpr... more » smegz: I see those big silver fists and Cock Knocker from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back comes to mind. more » Skeetz: This reminds me of one of Dr Robotniks many attacking forms.. more » -
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Bossa Nova Penbo: The "First Real Robot for Girls" Is a Pink, Waddling Penguin With a Baby
The adorable pink counterpart to Prime-8, Penbo is supposedly the "first real robot for girls." It uses the same locomotion tech derived from the buggy RHex robot, but cutified so it waddles: More » -
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Bossa Nova Prime-8 Robot
What's special about Bossa Nova's Prime-8 robot—a $100 descendant of DARPA and Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute's $20,000-a-pop all-terrain RHex designed for 10-year-old boys? It's the fastest bipedal toy robot ever. Just watch. More »WalksRuns on His Hands, Smashes Aibos to Bits
