Now Robots are not reserved only for battle field, defense or for
cleaning your home, pool, gutters and toilets, but they will also be available
for your kids to play with them. They will play with your kids they will teach
them to take wise decisions and moreover they will teach them how to give
instructions to a computer and play the
real game of world with robots not in the virtual world with computer games,
hey this is not the story but it’s the truth of your real life because two
robots by Play- I Yana and Bo are coming to entertain your kids with intelligent
games, these ready to play robots are small in size to play with your kids and
moreover they can do what ever your kid wants them to do, your kids will control
them in a very simple way just like a toy car with remote control. These two
robots have been launched under the crowdfunding campaign of the company.
Play-i Crowdfunded Robot Bo |
More over these small size robots can be easily controlled by the kids using
android or IOS device, it is as simple as that and with graphical programming
your kid can instructions to these robots. Do you also think like me?
Play-i crowdfunded robot Yana |
In the similar way one day
we can create big robots also and can give instructions to them in the very
similar way like this. It has many attachable and detachable parts that your kid
can use to modify it. It has motorized wheels, basic object detection, these
all are parts of Bo, the bigger brother of Yana, Bo can be programmed for the
moving in a pattern, games or interactions with your children and other Bo
robots also, the Yana robot cannot be mobile but it can detect objects and take
decisions too. Yana is a storyteller for your kids but Bo is like
a companion for your kids, it can learn things also and as the time will pass
it will become better to play with your kids. Even Bo and Yana can play hide
and seek game with each other or with your kids.
More Features of Bo and Yana
There are several features of Bo
and Yana robots like –
- Play based Programming : it has a visual programming interface means your kids can give instructions to the robots with music, animation and story.
- It also has an Online repository : it has a online repository for all of the programs that your child has created, your kid can share it with others also.
- Way for future programmers : It uses Scratch and Blocky, it has been created by MIT University, and they also provide tutorials and various libraries to make it easy to program their robots. By learning programs from the interfaces at the later stage they can also program it with their hands, when they will know how to program, means it is also a way to make the programming interesting for your kids and make them an intelligent programmer of the future.
Bo playing after programming |
Giving instructions to Bo and Yana robots through android or IOS with Scratch and Blocky |
Pricing
They
will launch it till the summer of 2014 it has various options to buy it, you
can reserve one for your kid now-
- Yana for $49
- Bo for $149
- Both Bo and Yana $198
- Developer’s Pack $499(you can get it even few months before the actual release)
I'm getting excited about this kind of beneficial information of your stuff in the future
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