Sega and their Rocking Robot

Sega have another robot heading our way, together with Hasbro at the Tokyo Toy Fair they’ve unleashed this, the AMPbot (Automated Musical Personality) and standing an impressive 73 centimetres high it is big enough to kick sand in Robosapiens eye. Stick an MP3 player on the back for some dancing action with moving head and the unavoidable flashing LED light display. Tune delivery comes from stereo speakers and those turntable-shaped hands are for volume control, sound effects and , the killer app, some DJ-style scratching. It’ll put lovers of the Sony Rolly in a bit of a fix, as although its almost twice the price it looks at least four times the fun, but you’ll have to be patient, Japan and the US get theirs this November but poor old Blighty won’t see any till at least the middle of 2009.The price : 80,000 Yen or about $740