Gadgetory

if you've been looking to get something like a toy robot kick that could eventually grow up to become a much more advanced robot maybe something that feels like a home robot that you could program maybe once I'm like Sphero Rover spiro has made a lot of robot balls and toys may have seen Spider Man r2d2 the rover is much more of a robot kit that it developer reviews and the rover is going to be hitting in the fall for prime around 249 and there's a Kickstarter campaign for it now it is like it a little RC Rover and you can see here it holds up 10 pounds to move by 8 miles an hour and it can connect not just with sphero's programming apps in edu but it can connect with Raspberry Pi and other coding kits if you want to attach them to the top and connect them with a serial cord that could mean that you could develop this do all sorts of things that the other spirit oice can't do and if you've been following the Sphero spin-off misty robotics which is a home robot that is a much more expensive higher-end device made for robotic programmers well this is kind of an in-between another cool thing on the rover is this color sensor here this is meant to sense colors and transmit them very fast over Bluetooth what do you do with that well Spiro acquired this company called spectrums I got to look at these color playing rings that turn color into music pretty cool and the idea that Tek was moved into here spiros gonna have color coded cards and you could lay on the ground that when the rover rolls over them reads them and interprets them as different actions you can maybe even build coding mats or draw your own use it to build boundaries for it so it's another way to interact with this that's very tactile and color based down the road Spiro wants to build custom toppers for this in addition to Raspberry Pi kits that could be things like Wi-Fi cameras and other things you could build maybe you build a robot arm for this maybe you just run around with it and use it as a crazy fast robot Rover in your house so this is still a prototype and the app that it's using is not the final version but it's interesting a look at where toys and programming robots for kids and schools could meet more advanced robotics down the hey thanks for watching what do you think about it do you program are you interested in robot kids let us know in the comments thanks for watching and stay tuned for more