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WowWee's latest robot toy confounds and confuses, but ultimately wins you over. The colors are familiar and there's a telltale Robosapien logo on the chest, but WowWee's new Roboquad looks unlike any ...

First impressions of Roboquad are good. Its four spider-like legs are jointed in such a way that they can spin round 360 degrees, an idea that came from the creator’s days as a NASA scientist ...

As much as I admire the technology inside Wow Wee's latest, the Roboquad, there's something about a scuttling spider-robot that freaks me out. Perhaps it's partly to do with the degree of AI that ...

In the 1997 film Fast, Cheap & Out of Control, documentarian Errol Morris took a look at a variety of eccentric characters whose work blurred the line between the human, the animal, and the mechanical ...

WowWee's Roboquad gives me the creeps. There, I've said it. It's Robosapien may have been a vaguely friendly ape-like bot, but this multi-legged arachnoid/crab hybrid monster thing obviously triggers ...

So tonight we got our first chance to take a look at the Roboquad, the four-legged multi-articulating spiderbot that kind of reminds us of a dog crossbred with the ticks its carrying. Oh, we'd also ...

WowWee, makers of the Robosapien, has launched a new range of robots at CES 2007 in Las Vegas. Top of the list is the Robopanda, a fun-loving robotic friend. There is no controller – for a completely ...

If you're looking to add yet another anthropomorphic automaton to your growing robotic zoo, hit the Read link for your chance to pre-order Wowwee's spider-esque Roboquad. Shipping as soon as they roll ...

We’ve all been waiting to see how the fabled WoWee Roboquad crawls. Now we know. The four-legged bot moves in all directions, has 3 different speeds, and a deep IR scanner to spot movements up to 13 ...

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