Robosapien

Robosapien is a humanoid robot from WowWee robotics.

Robosapien is a toy-like biomorphic robot designed by Mark Tilden and produced by WowWee toys. The Robosapien is preprogrammed with several functions that are controlled by an infrared remote control included with the toy. Robosapien, as the advert for it says, is "The robot that thinks it's a human!". He is capable of a walking motion without recourse to wheels within his feet. It is also able to grasp objects with either of its hands, and is also able to throw said objects with mild force. It has a small loudspeaker unit, which can broadcast several different vocalizations, all of which appear to be recordings of a human male pretending to be an ape.

The toy's remote control unit has a total of 21 different buttons. With the help of two shift buttons, a total of 67 different robot-executable commands are accessible.

Package contents[]

Robosapien comes with Remote and cup to pick-up and throw.

Programming[]

The Robosapien, or more correctly its controller, is equipped with a basic level of programmability. Users can string together movement commands to form what the toy's manual describes as either macros or mini-programs, but which are more correctly described as robotic instructions sets. A completed Instruction-set is broadcast to the Robosapien, which then saves the set to on-board memory for later execution. Instruction-set Programs can be re-played back by performing the following actions :

pressing the "execute" button
touching one of the sensors on its hands or feet
putting it in "listen" mode and then making a sharp noise.

It is also possible to produce a sensor-keyed instruction set, where the Robosapien will then perform a specific set of actions on contact with a specific sensor system (i.e. contact with the left hand would produce a set of sounds followed by a specific programmed gesture)

Command List[]

Bulldozer
Burp
Fart (Oops)
High Five
Left arm down
Left arm in
Left arm out
Left arm up
Lean back
Lean forward
Lean left
Lean right
Left pick up
Left strike 1
Left strike 2
Left strike 3
Left sweep
Left throw
Left thump
Left (turn left)
Reset
Right arm down
Right arm in
Right arm out
Right arm up
Right pick up
Right strike 1
Right strike 2
Right strike 3
Right sweep
Right throw
Right thump
Right (turn right)
Roar
Step backward
Step forward
Stop
Talk back
Turn step left
Turn step right
Wake up
Walk backward
Walk forward
Whistle
Dance
Demo 1
Demo2 All Demo

Batteries[]

The robot takes 4 "D" size batteries and the remote controller requires 3 "AAA" batteries.

Colors[]

Robosapien first came out in white with black accents. The robot then was sold in black, chromatic red, chromatic green chromatic blue, chromatic silver and chromatic gold. There was also a signed edition of most of these colors, as well as versions themed after Spider-Man and the Simpsons, dubbed Spidersapien and Homersapien respectively.[]

Trivia[]

The dance music sounds similar to Dead or Alive's song You Spin Me Round (Like a Record).
When you turn it off via remote, or it automatically turns off due to inactivity, it says "Rosebud," mimicking the death scene of the movie Citizen Kane.
On boot, the Robosapien will perform a brief self-check sequence. On completion, it will say "Uh-huh," and enter normal operation. If this sequence fails or runs sub-optimally for whatever reason (e.g. low battery power), it will instead say a negative "Nuh-uh." However, it will still operate normally even if the sequence fails.

Links[]

WowWee Robotics

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"Robosapien" • "Roboraptor" • "Robopet" • "Robosapien V2" • "Roboreptile" • "Robopanda" • "Roboquad" • "Roboboa" • "Chatterbot" • "Tri-Bot" • "Femisapien" • "Wrex the Dawg" • "Bug Bots" • "Mini Robotics" • "McDonalds WowWee Robotics toys