Bring Back or Improve the WowWee RoboSapien RS Media and V2 Robots
- Tika Carr
- Closed on
- Target:
- WowWee Robotics (www.wowwee.com)
- Region:
- United States of America
- Website:
- bytebin.net
Thank you for signing the petition. Unfortunately, I do not have time to maintain it and it doesn't look like WowWee is interested in robotics anymore anyway.
WowWee Robotics makes a wide range of cutting-edge robotic toys. Unfortunately, some of them are now discontinued, such as the RoboSapien V2 and RoboSapien RS Media.
The RoboSapien RS Media is fully programmable with Linux operating system built in. There are a few good white-hat robot hackers out there that have developed the RS Media beyond what comes out of the box, due to the ability to utilize it's on-board Linux operating system and USB port. Schools have also used this robot as a teaching tool. The robot also has expandable memory via SD card and a secret built-in serial port console to get direct access to the robot's OS.
The RoboSapien V2 is a big upgrade from the original RoboSapien (which is not yet discontinued). He has the same full autonomous abilities and can move much the same as the RS Media model. While he can not be programmed via PC computer, the one feature many liked was his walking gait was a bit better and his hands featured 4 fingers (3 on top, 2 on bottom) instead of the two-on-top, one-on-bottom claw hands the RS Media features.
While many may buy robots as toys for their kids, we feel that these robots are also much loved by those of us in the robot community that love to program, alter, and improve these robots! We are not happy that WowWee has decided to discontinue the RS Media and V2 RoboSapien models without at least implementing the much loved features in a new version.
We the undersigned would like WowWee Robotics to please consider bringing back the RoboSapien RS Media, and if also possible the RoboSapien V2.
If these models must be discontinued, we would like to see a new RoboSapien that is programmable via Linux and USB port like the RS Media, features the same roaming, movements and basic BodyCons (animations) that the V2 and RS Media has had, personality programming, and the same hand style (i.e.. robot-moveable fingers) that the V2 version had. In addition we would like to see this robot to maybe have some form of voice recognition and remote monitoring capabilities.
We would like to develop for a robot like this and would appreciate a development kit for those of us who would like to get into this area. The robot could also double as a consumer toy for any age, since it would have the same features of it's predecessors.
We the undersigned are robot developers and enthusiasts who find the WowWee RoboSapiens very educational and have faith that WowWee has the technology currently to deliver the ultimate robot we have mentioned above. Therefore we would like WowWee to please consider our feedback and give us our Ultimate RoboSapien or bring back the ones we love so much!
The more of us that have robots, the more we can share and learn from each other. We can't do that if the robots are discontinued and can't be found!
The Bring Back or Improve the WowWee RoboSapien RS Media and V2 Robots petition to WowWee Robotics (www.wowwee.com) was written by Tika Carr and is in the category Science & Technology at GoPetition.