Tomy Micro Pets Are Easily $20 Worth Of Cute
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Monday, 7 of September , 2009 at 12:20 am
We first heard about these little animal robots from Tomy back in April. As it turns out, our guess that they’d be able to chase balls and avoid obstacles was dead on, since that (and pretty much nothing else) is what they can do. The only other feature to speak of is that they can sing tunes (of a sort), and if you put two of them together, they sing to each other. There isn’t any sort of remote control, but it appears as though you control the robot by tapping out simple patterns… Some kind of audio recognition, is my guess.
$20 is pretty inexpensive for a deceptively capable robot. I mean, if you look at it strictly, these robots have more “brains” (or more autonomous capability, anyway) than most hobby humanoids. They’re cheap enough that you could easily afford to buy a couple, rip them apart, and harvest them for parts. If you do so, I bet their cute little ears won’t wiggle anymore, but that’s a small price to pay for obstacle avoidance and object following hardware.
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Comment by Kyle
Made Thursday, 10 of September , 2009 at 8:36 pm
Interesting form of locomotion.
Comment by micro informatique service
Made Monday, 21 of September , 2009 at 4:59 am
Thanks for the useful info. It’s so interesting!
Comment by Monica Jimenez
Made Thursday, 19 of November , 2009 at 9:04 pm
Evan,
Do you know who should I contact to get these cute mini pets? I would like to sell them in Mexico and can not get an answer.
Comment by Claire
Made Thursday, 14 of January , 2010 at 5:01 am
http://www.micropets-i.com contact on there