Educational Robot Toys ? The 21st Century toys for child

Educational Robot Toys ? The 21st Century toys for child

Many cost-effective, high performance quality robots have been broadly used for household, commercial applications and also child’s toys. Gone are the days when children were playing iron hoops and dolls made by simple wood carvings and bundles of grass. Today’s children’s demand is dominated by complicated contraptions that come from just a fraction of their minds. Nowadays, thanking to the enhanced technology, an electronic robot toy is far more sophisticated than those ordinary molded plastic toys only with blinking lights and beeping sound effects. Robot toys that are available in the market today are not only sleek, but also more interactive. According to Mattel’s president, Neil Friedman, “Innovation is a key in the toy industry and to succeed one must create a ‘wow’ moment for kids by designing toys that have fun, innovative features and include new technologies and engaging content.” Its sales largely depend on the rapidly changing toy commerce and the demand by parents and children for more enhanced features.

Video games are not considered as robot toys. They are just electronic role-playing mind games; robot toys are highly interactive between the toy and the user. Usually, the toy robots are replicates of human beings, while a video game is an audio visual device to play games on. Based on many research reports, it indicated that more and more children are addicted to violent video games such as fighting and combat action games. It affects their mind development badly through their growth path to become adults. Educational toy robots, educational toys, and non-violent multiplayer online games will replace pinball machines, fighting games, and combat action games in the video arcades of the future. 

Nowadays, there are many different types of robot toys in the market. Most of them are reflections of the child’s obsession with cartoon characters like Wall-e and celluloid heroes like Batman. They are all not only very sophisticated, but also costly. For instance, Wow Wee’s high tech robot pets have gained many customers’ applauses with their highly innovative designs and life-like actions and movements. Some of the robot toy pets can actually fetch and run and even snuggle up to you. Not only are children crazy about the robot toy, but even adults are now spending a lot of money on the highly sophisticated robot toys in the market! Especially in Japan, because of the fact of labor shortage, the elders require more and more companion with robot products. 

Educational toy robots have been widely introduced in school these days. They enable the user to experiment and increase creativity with the fully autonomous components. Most of the robot toys are equipped with all kinds of sensors enabling to see, hear and feel, making it the ideal companion. Many robot toys are able to express a wide range of emotions, while the bio-mechanism enables smooth and even humanoid movement. Some of them can even be programmable to perform different tasks via user’s commands. Like the other toy products in the market, the toy robots are also manufactured with eco-friendly material and in compliance with set industry rules and standards. 

RobotBuy Store Canada (www.robotbuy.ca) is a leading distribution source of varieties of robot products such as Domestic Robots, Pet care Robot kits, Robot Toys, Robot Educational and Development kits and robot building tools and equipment. At RobotBuy Store, customers will find their favorite robot products and enjoy a great experience brought by state-of-the-art robot technologies.

Everything You Wanted to Know About Fighting Robots as Sport

Everything You Wanted to Know About Fighting Robots as Sport

obot Combat is a hobby in which two or more radio-controlled machines use varied methods of destroying or disabling the other robot. The machines are referred to as robots, but most are not actually robots by the strictest definition of the word, because they are not autonomous.

Robot Combat enjoyed a period in the public eye when several television shows broadcast the robot fights. The most well-known of these shows were Battlebots, Robot Wars, and Robotica. Combat robots have received mention in the press and entertainment shows from time to time as well.

The construction and competition of combat robots is a hobby for all but a select few builders. Robots builders may be middle-aged engineers, or enthusiastic teenagers. Robot building can teach young people a great deal about technology, and some schools use the construction of combat robots in their courses.

Robots come in all shapes and sizes, but there are certain defining lines that robots rarely stray across, thanks to official rules and practicality. The standard by which all combat robots are measured is weight; the everyday dilemma of the robot builder is to cram as much power into as little weight as possible. Robots can be as small as the 75 gram ‘Fleaweight’ class, and as large as the 340-pound ‘Super Heavyweight’ class. The common US weightclasses are as follows:

75g- Fleaweight 150g- Fairyweight 1 pound- Antweight 3 pound- Beetleweight 12 pound- Hobbyweight 30 pound (14 kg) Featherweight 60 pound (27 kg) Lightweight 120 pound (54 kg) – Middleweight 220 pound (100 kg) – Heavyweight 340 pound (154 kg) Super Heavyweight

There are some international variations in weight class – for example, UK robot builders define the Antweight class limit as 150g and the Featherweight class limit as 12kg (26 pounds).

Weight is a precious asset for robot builders. For the sake of diversity of design, the rules often give an extra weight allotment for robots that can walk, rather than roll on wheels. Such robots are more difficult to construct and their drive mechanisms are heavier. Some builders opt to build walking robots, taking advantage of the extra weight to add more powerful weaponry at the expense of greater complexity and fragility.

Given the violent nature of robot fighting, safety is always the most important issue at robot events. Robot fights take place in a sturdy arena, usually constructed of steel, wood, and bulletproof clear Lexan plastic. The size of the arena varies by the weightclass of the robots that are fighting in it. Some large competitions that entertain many different weightclasses have more than one arena, as 1 pound antweights don’t need 50 foot (15 m) wide arenas in which to fight, but 220 pound heavyweights do. Plus, tiny robots look awfully out of place and are hard to see in a giant arena. Having multiple arenas allows the event to progress more quickly.

Competition rules set limits on construction features that are too dangerous or which could lead to uninteresting contests. Strict limits are placed on materials and pressures used in pneumatic or hydraulic actuators, and fail-safe systems are required for electronic control circuits. Generally off-limits for use as weapons are nets, liquid, radio jamming, high-voltage electric discharge, untethered projectiles, and usually fire. Many robot combat events have adopted the RFL (Robot Fighting League) ruleset, which is adaptable to each competition that elects to use it.

The Robot Fighting League was created in 2002 when several builders decided that the world of robot combat needed standardisation of rules and judging criteria. The majority of robot combat events in the US have become RFL members, but some event organisers oppose the direction in which the RFL is taking the sport and remain independent.