A neat toy

You have to check out the i-Sobot by Tomy! This tiny little guy has 17 servo's and is apparently remarkable! As far as I can tell he can be programmed by MRDS, but I all I have as evidence at the moment is a VSE discussion on MSDN forums. Thinkgeek has stock of these little dudes and is very impressed by them.

I would say that programming would be easy if you played the role of the remote control rather than the robot itself. However that becomes wildly absurd when you consider that you would need the sensor information to program autonomy into it. I'll have to do some more digging!

I'm still pro-LEGO, since the robotics can be re-assembled. But the i-Sobot is definitely something I'd love to play with! Also the non-assembly feature of the i-Sobot may be better suited to beginners like me!

Links:

• [i-Sobot]
• [MSDN Forums]
• [ThinkGeek: i-SOBOT Micro Humanoid Robot]
• [Amazon]