Coding Robots for Kids Ages 8-12, VinciBot Programmable AI Robot Toy Kit Remote Control Electronic Programming Robot compatible Scratch Python STEM Educational Toy Back to School Gift

This is a brilliant idea, my lad loves scratch so I knew this would be a winner, he has lots of fun with it and the more he plays with it the more the bot does, it was easy to set up and we did it all from our phone and my lad has the app on his tablet, the battery is pretty decent on it too lasting at least afew times he plays with it, for the price we paid for it I'd say it's good value for money, you definitely have to have patience at the start because you have to work with it so it does more and you can attach lego to it aswell which doesn't tell you that in the description so that was a nice surprise so you can do even more with it, it's a gift that keeps on giving because you can buy extras for it too, all in all I'd definitely recommend this to anyone thinking of buying for there little one, my lad is 8 and he gets on well with it, I helped him set it up but he doesn't need my help now he plays with it on his own

The media could not be loaded. It is very nice that it is compatible with the Scratch program. This robot will be very useful when teaching my daughter how to code. The manual explains it very well and in great detail. It can also be controlled and programmed with a remote control. It is definitely a versatile and enjoyable toy. It is a quality and durable robot. I definitely recommend it.

I received: MatataStudio Coding Robot for Kids Ages 8-12, VinciBot Programmable AI Robot Toy Kit Remote Control Electronic Programming Robot compatible Scratch Python STEM Educational Toy Back to School GiftI picked this up because my 8 year old is very into "Scratch" on the PC. He spends ages making apples move about and fill the screen or has a cartoon cat making high pitched noises.He really enjoyed getting this robot to follow a path and got excited about the idea of attaching Lego to and programming the robot.After a bit of fiddly setting up, it has proven to be quite an inspirational device.

The world in the 21st century is very digital and teaching the mechanics of this to kids growing up into that world is not only a hard task but also an essential one. Whilst I've started on teaching them Scratch - rather than just seeing things on a screen this contraption takes things that one level further with proper interactive, creative play. It's true that to use this robot, you do need to understand the basics of coding and it's not designed to teach you the basics but to harness your skills and advance them through the creative play. I'd really call this robot a learning through play or an educational gift - but what you get is a really powerful, all singing and dancing bot (quite literally); It has motors to move the device, speakers to play basic and goes to really advanced levels like following a straight line through to speech and colour recognition so it can really grow with your child and perform some cool effects. You get a comprehensive pack of video materials to help get you started with ideas and what not but it's the ability to explore and learn that keep this toy so amazing. The battery of the robot is around 4 hours and it's rechargeable so given there's a fair bit of coding time between iterations of runs this is more than suffice. Highly recommend!

This was fantastic initially. Kids loved it, great introduction to coding and robots.The app however started the issues; the privacy policy never loads, so rather than creating an account we opted to remain as a guest when using it.Then the bot just stopped working. Won't connect to the app, won't work using the remote. We've tried resetting it, tried turning it off and back on, tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app. Nothing works.So we reached out to Matalab asking for help, and we've heard ZERO back from them. Clearly they have better things to do than actually help their customers.Oh, and the cookies they force you to accept when installing the app on a laptop or computer are suspicious to say the least, if you take the time to look at them all.I'd return it, but we are 2 weeks past the return window, so now we're stuck with a useless robot and unhappy kids. I thought this would be perfect for the long term with its options to use a remote, scratch coding, and even to use lego on it. Definitely not worth £90 for just over a month of use. Very disappointed.

In the box with the robot is a remote control, crayon pen for the robot to scan and imitate plus charge cable and instructions.The robot will take some setting up to get working correctly.To use the robot it must be connected to a pc via a USB cable and then programmed with the Matatalab software that uses simple diagram instructions to perform and execute the instructions one by one.This robot features graphic and python programming platforms as well as AI and IOT Features.There are so many effects and programming abilities that can be done with this robot featuring effects of sound, light and movement.The robot itself is well built and has precise movement with high sensor accuracy and a long battery life that will last up to 4 hours.Inside the robot it is equipped with 8 sensors and a 16 x 8 LED Matrix on the front of it to show different effects.This robot is aimed at young children to give then insight into what simplistic programming can achieve through the robots actions and the fun and educational outputs it achieves.Overall this is a high quality introduction robot for children and basic programming techniques plus how they perform and hopefully building them a path in the future for technology.