Tiny Robot

Nice to see a product aimed at kids that doesn't lock them into a scratch-like environment for a change.

Interesting, anyway about robotics I have a doubt (sort of). Can be considered a robot, or at least "some thing" a device that - despite the fact that can be programmed, is educational etc. - doe nothing else than moving?

Enrico

Bit high, especially when there are alternatives like mBot that were sold for 49USD (kickstarter price) with more sensors, a decent chassis and expansion capabilities: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1818505613/mbot-49-educational-robot-for-each-kid/description

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To be honest (I don't know the price of this device) this is already something more complete, can do things more than just moving for itself.

Enrico

Land based drone perhaps, A Robot... Na.

The wink has a microcontroller, sensors and outputs in the form of motors and lights. It can operate without being controlled by a human. Surely that makes it a robot.

I've just bought myself a bag of little vibration motors, I'm going to see if I can build something similar (without sensors) using an Adafruit Trinket

Andy I am not discussing on the correct categorisation or not. What I point is different, especially respect the target this device pretend to be addressed. Just to make an example, if you gift to a kid a train he can enjoy playing with the train, better if it is a perfect replica 1:50 of a real train with all details. Then if to the same kid you gift a perfect running replica of an underground train and he see just a tube because the train run inside, you are giving him the same thing but very few appeal, despite both the two things are of the same category. In the second case he has a dramatically low perception of all what implies to play with a train. He has a tube !

In the same way like this extreme example the received perception of a "robot" for a kid in my opinion is very low in this case, less than the same he can have with a robot arm or a simply programmable thing that can do also the most stupid action than run (ok, this game can follow a black line).

Enrico

In generic terms people will call it a robot but the original and in my opinion the definition is "Slave or Forced labour" so what job it is replacing that a human did, if it at least swept the floor it could qualify

I think the term is getting very diluted to mean anything that is automated / autonomous, even partially and is spoiling the real robots identity