Roboraptor History & Teardown WowWee Remote Control Raptor Dinosaur
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
- WowWee's lovable Roboraptor dinosaur toy robot has become the must-have gadget of the 2005 Christmas season. With its toothy mouth, blue reptile eyes, and Apple inspired body more than two feet long, the Roboraptor is a surprisingly lifelike bot, with just enough autonomy to make it really cool for both kids and adults.
Using five motors, touch sensors (on its chin, back, and tail, and in its mouth), infrared (on its head and nose) and stereo audio sensors (in the jaw), Roboraptor can, whether you set it in "Roam" or control its motion, move around, avoid things, and even inspect and react to its environment. For a toy, this level of interaction and environmental understanding is cheap: Roboraptor sells for around $120. But for a small robot, it's priced about right.
Like the Robosapien, Roboraptor needs a remote to take commands from the user. This remote is stylishly designed, and it matches Roboraptor's body appearance.
Roboraptor is a robotic toy invented by Mark Tilden in 1999, and then distributed by Wow Wee Toys International. It is the successor to the RoboSapien robot and uses motion technology based on realistic biomechanics that give it fluid and natural movements. It has a multi-function remote control that uses infrared technology to talk to it. Unlike the original RoboSapien, the Roboraptor is capable of autonomous movement, using 3 realistic gaits.
Roboraptor comes with several sensors that allow it to monitor and interact with its environment. It has infrared and stereo sound sensors on its head, and touch sensors on its chin, tail, and in the mouth allowing for more fun and interactive play.
Sensors
Roboraptor comes with several sensors that allow it to monitor and interact with its environment. It has infrared and stereo sound sensors on its head, and touch sensors on its chin, tail, and in the mouth allowing for more fun and interactive play.
Flexible behaviors
When one touches one of Roboraptor's touch sensors, its reaction will vary depending on its mood. Touching its face when it is hunting will make it react angrily and most likely attempt to "attack" the person touching it. But if it is feeling playful, it will nuzzle the person's hand and then "attack", using its jaws.
Autonomous behaviors
It has four different modes of behavior or moods: hunting, cautious, playful, and free-roam. In hunting mode, it will react to sharp sounds and progressively focus its attention more intensely on repeated sounds coming from the same direction. In cautious mode, it will react oppositely and move away from sounds it hears. In playful mode, it will react to sounds in a more whimsical fashion but neither approaching nor avoiding them. In free-roam mode, it will explore its own environment, avoiding obstacles and stopping occasionally to listen for loud sounds to investigate. The Roboraptor does not walk well on carpets and cannot be programmed.
Laser targeting
Early versions of the Roboraptor could also follow a laser-like target pointed on the ground. This could be used this to lead it around a room under direct control. However, this feature was removed from later units.
Common Name: RoboRaptor
Species: Mecharaptor argentelapis
The RoboRaptors are genetically enhanced cyborgs with DNA crossed between tyrannosaurs and maniraptorians. The construction of these true advancements of technology dates back to the year 1999, when WowWee Corporations were in the middle of a great war; several paleontologists were sent on expeditions to various dig sites in places like Hell Creek and the Gobi Desert to uncover tyrannosaur and raptor fossils and make swift, powerful, and intelligent war machines out of the bones(Project: RoboRaptor). Several companies from around the world funded this project, and it proved a great success. However, in the year 2010, the RoboRaptors' feral instincts were mysteriously unleashed, and they successfully escaped their enclosures. It's 2018 now, but the machines' whereabouts are still unknown, though there have been reports of civilians coming up with stories of strange "metal lizards".
A fully-grown RoboRaptor can reach an average size of 35 feet long, 18 feet tall, and 12,000 pounds; however, one elder male specimen, affectionately codenamed Iron Giant(after the movie), measured over 40 feet long, over 20 feet tall, and weighed roughly 15,800 pounds.
RoboRaptors are sexually chromatic, meaning their color depends on their gender. Females are a light gray with black stripes, while males are a dazzling blue with sapphire-blue stripes that are astoundingly iridescent; scientists that were once part of Project: RoboRaptor theorize that males use these glimmering stripes to woo females and intimidate other males. These cyborg saurians also possess two long, sharp horns pointing backwards from each side of their heads, which scientists theorize are used in combat over food, territory, or breeding rights.
Got one of these for Christmas back in 2006. Awesome toy and a lot of great memories. I’ve since misplaced it but it think it’s still kicking around somewhere.
lol How do you lose something so big? It's something I'm guilty of too lol
thanks for this! it helped me figure out why a leg wasn't moving.
I just bought a robo raptor and the left leg is not moving. Did you have this issue and how did you fix it?
Thanks
I have this toy, the remote doesn't seem to work any more. Someone gave it to me for my grandson. What can I do to get it working again? Without taking it all apart.
Nobody, Not a single soul:
Nev: *I prefer the ot-*
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why do newer ones not have laser targeting
I have robosapien and roboraptor
How do you sync the controller, we have one but misplaced the manual
used this thank you found the left leg was broke strip wire and broken spring
died after cheap hock breaks on guard mode why???!!!!
shift is not necessary to use on the controller guard is why it spins to much by clockwise
cause the hock going from the motor to the jaw why it spun and broke
these really shouldn't be for kids do to cheap connection blame the guard mode had 6 of those yet no good so
Roko is better though it was fun for a week then it breaks
as I said that there in the commercial tv add comments not ok for kids if it breaks so easily
this is the GUARD modes fault it breaks and it can
be a fine because they make these so weakly adding tape now before they glued it when they should've had a soldering tool
why its guard because its neck breaks off the hock every time fully charged
I have that toy.
Great! Helped me fix one. Thanks.
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i had one of thos and still have it, its neck is dislocated and its left foot is broken to where its flimsy, the back part of the tail is broken off (but the tail is always broken on thos things) it has scratches and marks all over it, doesnt work anymore lost the controller but god damn it i love this thing, so many good memories having my stuffed blue bear throw it around the room in epic battles
Mines just stopped working No Power
Mine just stopped working, so I watched your video and I have tried everything, I dont know what else to do and I did name him and I really liked him but I really dont know what to do now or who to ask, any help would be great, thanks Micki
have 1 with the remote the neck wont stand. help
I have this same raptor. I can't get it to power on. Put new batteries. Any ideas
Did you clean off all the leads in the battery compartment?
@@NevsTechBits The same thing happened to me, I found that I had placed a single battery of the six in backwards.
Cute?! Heck no!
not well built
these toys don't really last long compared to the recent RUKO company
robo-sapien was better until it broke after 15 years later
Roko 2020 carrel the space warrior is better in my opinion it might be true because
they do not have the hands with wires hanging out like robo-sapien was