Gadgetory

this is a hexbug spider and it's a remote-controlled toy you can buy for around twenty-five dollars but it's been made autonomous with the bots alive system the Box alive kit comes with a decal you stick on top of the spider a bunch of red and blue blocks and an infrared blaster that plugs into a phone hold your smartphone on top of the toy and it comes to life with a mind of its own the system has been programmed so the robot navigates towards blue objects and avoids the red ones so you can be kind of cruel and trap it in a sea of red objects or create a spiral maze so it's hard for the bot to reach the blue the creators told me that the artificial intelligence has been designed to make the robot feel organic more like a real animal than a robot as you can see it's a bit hesitant when it's moving around and deciding what to do bots alive will ship in july for thirty-five dollars for the smartphone kit or sixty dollars for the entire package including a hexbug spider