The movements that a player or players can do with the Robonica Robonic game play are to shoot, scoop, capture and maneuver through using the remote controllers. Infrared sensors are attached to the robot that is used to detect obstacles and interact with other Robonica Roboni game play robots in a team interaction game..

The robotic gaming experience is an ultimately fun, challenging and competitive interactive game play that is sure to open and widen your gaming ideas. The Robonica Roboni game play is loaded with accessories that will contribute to a more exciting game; some of these accessories, which come along with every Robonica Roboni game play you buy, are a mobile controller, infrared gun, scoop, electronic ball, Unihubs with embedded transponders, energy cards, special effects card and other accessories.

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This can be played along or together with friends and family members as a team game, you only have to use the controller to set the game play and start one of the preloaded games. When getting started with the robot, an animated show will walk you through to showing you how the game is played. When you are done if the preloaded games and you want more of the excitement, you can easily download games and place them on your robot. To have more thrill on playing with your robot, you can set up matches with friends or register and join a tournament that is happening in your area.

Robonica Roboni Customer Review-Testimonial

Robotics runs in our family, My Wife teaches Robotics to kids 5-8 grade, my daughter 13yr old obviously is completely involved in this, she and her team are now in regional level First LEGO League competition (FLL 2009) which involves building functional robots using LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0 (8547) kit. This year's theme is all about Smart Transportation.

Having given the background, let me share the experiences with ROBONI-I

Roboni-I Programmable Gaming Robot is a "TOY" that can introduce your child into world of gaming and robotics at the same time teaches your child some concepts of programming; it has good education value and hours of engagement and fun for the whole family.

Robotics is an expensive hobby for most, Roboni-I is no exception, however, this is truly the first attempt from any company to commercialize robotic gaming and the future surely looks bright for this company as my daughter already given me a thumbs up for this robot! And soon many will follow as she shares this information for others in the school and her FLL team.

Roboni-I Programmable Gaming Robot can be really enjoyed the best when you pair with your friend or against a team of players controlling other robots as the robots are designed to communicate with each other.

The Robot construction is truly space age with gears and wheels and has tons of sensors that provide feedback to the robot. I will not go over the specifications as you can find that on the website and product manuals.

Roboni-I uses tons of AA batteries, total of QTY 12, before even you start using the product I strongly recommend buying heavy duty Sanyo 2,700 mAh AA NiMH Rechargeable Batteries (4-Pack)

Software installation was hiccup free for me when compared to others seen here; I have an older Windows XP (SP3) based Laptop which was used for this task, as the drivers are not "WHQL" certified and digitally signed it will give you warning during installation. If you abort the process the Robot will not be recognized by the software provided. If you run into that situation, re-install the software with Robot connected to your PC via provided USB cable and install the drivers that are not digitally signed.

It is a very agile robot with very high degree of flexibility in motion, Agree with others here that it is bit on the "noisier" side, but hey! It is a toy and this one has attitude too :-)

The robot can be programmed and his behaviors can be changed from the control center software and can be told to do different actions, At this time of the review, we have not fully mastered the control center commands yet and we will update the review once we are able to program the Robot to do other activities.

The Online World as advertised by Roboni-I is not operational yet, when you try to register your Robot Online to play against other robots online it says "Under Construction "...

This clearly shows that [...] has rushed this product out the door to capture the holiday shoppers without fully delivering the features promised on the product, But If they keep up their promises I am sure it will be accepted by the community as there are always some hurdles to overcome when you launch a new age of technology online.

The included accessories will provide days of fun for any robot enthusiastic person, while the instruction manual is very basic, the software has good instructions about the things one can do with the Robot. It is little too overwhelming at first, but I am sure kids can easily learn to get over the Menus with little practice.

PROS:

[+] Fully functional ROBOT right out of the box
[+] Very agile and can do lots of tricks for you.
[+] Good set of accessories included
[+] Plastic but sturdy construction

CONS:

[-] Online world is not available yet
[-] Needs a lot of AAnbatteries
[-] Drivers are not WHQL certified and digitally signed.

While this is not as robust and fully supported by community as LEGO Mindstorms, Roboni-I provides a different type of educational and gaming experience for kids especially for the competitive minded. Roboni-I's greatest advantage is that it comes fully ready to use when compared to LEGO Mindstorms kit and your child can start enjoying the robot out of the box and when he or she gets bored with the included games, the programming aspects and future ONLINE gaming experience will keep your child busy educationally and intellectually for months to come.

It is a decent buy, Make sure you get two of them for competitive robot gaming!