So how did such a simple looking robot find such fame amongst the more technologically advanced robots available on the market, the story behind it is somewhat special indeed.

The designer of Keepon is Hideki Kozima, who developed the robot as a social interaction tool for autistic children. He found that the simplistic looking robot could encourage more interaction and eye contact than human beings could with the children and over the last few years Keepon has been used as a learning tool amongst schools.

Hideki put videos of his social experiments on YouTube and not one to miss a trick, a huge toy company came along and said they’d like to create a consumer version of the little robot thanks to it’s growing online popularity, low and behold My Keepon was born and it’s set to be a huge smash indeed with the manufacturers donating a proportion of profits to autistic charities.

My Keepon has two modes, dance mode and interactive mode. In dance mode he will listen to the beat of any song and dance along to the beat, completely in time. No dance is ever the same though thanks to some clever computing so even if you play the same song twice, whilst dancing in time to the beat he will pull out some new moves to everyone’s delight!

In interactive mode he will respond to touch and sound, turning to face you when you speak, nodding along and bobbing his head when patted. My Keepon becomes more than just a robot, he’s like an interactive pet that will undoubtedly become part of the family.

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Take one look at Rovio and you cannot help but be impressed at the techknowlogy. This 3 wheeled WiFi controlled web cam allows you to see what it see’s through it’s camera via an internet connection, whilst picking up and transmitting sound via the mic and speakers, which is all very impressive indeed.

Rovio is a futuristic looking WiFi controlled robot complete with webcam and mic which looks like he’s been designed by NASA and in the year 2009, this is all pretty impressive.

Interestingly one of the developers from NASA actually helped to design Rovio, so expect bits to fall off him whilst in use ….

He has an internal “Sat Nav” which allows you to store points that he can return to at the touch of a button along with the ability to return to it’s docking bay at will to recharge.

The problem we have with Rovio is what do you actually do with him? He’s too expensive to be a novelty you store away in the cupboard and the home security angle, well yes now you can watch those youth’s in hoodies robbing your house whilst your miles away unable to actually do anything about it.

He’s not practical, but he’s extremely cool looking and yes, we’d still have one even if we didn’t know what we’d do with it.

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Seriously high tech and yet very user friendly at the same time, you don’t need to be a boffin with letters after your name that nobody knows the meaning of to operate this amazing creation. It’s so sophisticated that you’ll be able to play the mad professor to your hearts content, juast try not to scream “it’s allliiivveee!!!”.

Created by the guy that designed The Transformer robots and a talented robot inventor, the MechRC Robot can be manipulated via your PC, animated film strip allows you to control the robot and save the move or sequence that you come up with.

With over one hundred pre-installed actions and sounds to choose from, you can put the robot into all kinds of entertaining situations.

Add sounds, music or voice recordings from your PC and watch the fun! With 180 degree movement and a speaker in its chest for added authenticity, this robot looks like the real deal.

The MechRC Robot comes ready assembled and with an IR remote control, all software and a user guide is included. The MechRC Robot is suitable for ages 14 plus but we suspect that many older Robot enthusiasts are going to be hankering after one of them!

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The T3 Solar Robot Kit however is powered by the sun which is very Eco friendly and keeps the tree huggers happy, the transformers have a lot to learn indeed.

If you have ever wanted a robot which comes to you in 70 individual pieces which you have to somewhat rewardingly piece together yourself and then turns into either a Scorpion, a Tank or a erm, robot looking Robot… then boy do we have the toy for you!

The T3 Solar Robot harnesses the awesome power that is the sun, meaning no batteries or chip fat are required. Once you’ve figured out how to put it together it will burst into life and roar across your desktop whilst you scream at the top of your lungs “it’s aliiiivvveee!!!”, at least that’s what happened in our office anyway.

The perfect gift for that kid or big kid that keeps taking things apart to see how they work and educates an Eco friendly message, what more could you ask for?

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