i-SOBOT’s Price Shrinks To $100
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Tuesday, 4 of November , 2008 at 12:56 am
i-SOBOT, a teeny tiny humaniod robot with 17 servos and a gyro and voice recognition, is now available for only $100 after debuting about this time last year for $350. I’m not sure what’s to credit (blame?) for this drastic price cut, but maybe (hopefully) it means that robot kits are getting really really popular, or something. I suppose it could also mean that nobody is buying them, but how could you not want your very own 6.5″ programmable humanoid?
Get it from Hammacher-Schlemmawhatasillyname.
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Comment by Casey
Made Tuesday, 4 of November , 2008 at 2:13 am
My girlfriend JUST bought me this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by Jan
Made Tuesday, 4 of November , 2008 at 3:56 am
Wow! That’d be a great price… if they didn’t have a bizarrely high $76 to ship it to this part of the world. :-/
Comment by isobot
Made Tuesday, 4 of November , 2008 at 4:29 am
This is shocking. In the UK the isobot is still around £165 (which is $200) at the cheapest I can find
Comment by ethan454
Made Tuesday, 4 of November , 2008 at 5:43 pm
You know the motorola razer came out at something like $350.
Although last year my dad got 2 of them for 50$ (no not illegaly-through alltell).
Maby the same thing is giong on here.
I hope so cause I realy realy want something like this (or this)But I’m also realy cheep…
Comment by Casey
Made Tuesday, 4 of November , 2008 at 7:10 pm
If you search some other robot sites for this I saw a coupon code posted for free shipping. Look up on Google “I-Sobot, price drop”
Comment by Evan Ackerman
Made Thursday, 6 of November , 2008 at 3:47 am
Sometimes things cost a lot of money just because they can, and people will pay it. I suspect this is what happened with the Motorola Razor. I’m not sure where robots like i-SOBOT come in on that spectrum… My guess is that it had a pretty decent profit margin when it was first released because it was “new” and “smallest” but I’m not sure how much above (or below?) $100 it’s actually WORTH now.
I sure am curious, though.
Comment by Casey
Made Monday, 10 of November , 2008 at 2:04 am
I am sure it is a multifaceted reason why the price has dropped. Tomy, I have noticed, being a bigger company with different toys coming out would be able to drop prices on the I-Sobot as they have different toys gaining them capital. The same would be for WowWee. A company like Hitech, or even Futaba would have to sell a much more specialized item, making it harder to keep prices down. All in all I am stoked to have bought I-Sobot for $100!
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Comment by InvestorMod
Made Tuesday, 6 of December , 2011 at 3:10 pm
They should have kept it at $100. Needs the capability of a few hundred voice commands and the ability to program any movement for each of those commands for it to be worth a few hundred $/£. Right now its a flop. Nobody is going to buy anywhere. One of these sold on ebay in the UK recently for £71.50. Some poor idiot is trying to get £199 for his used robot. Will be lucky to get £50.
