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.

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