I've known the developers behind Marty for years - and this is an incredibly well-engineered bipedal robot! With onboard WiFi or an RPi; and Python, Scratch, C++, ROS - it's a bit like the Turtlebot for humanoids.<p>Fun fact, back in March I had the pleasure to share the stage with a handful of Martys at the Edinburgh International Science Festival dancing away...
I bought an mBot kit to make with my 6 year old cousin recently. It was fun, but the default software was pretty limited, and the scratch programming environment was not actually that easy to use for a beginner. Had to drop into C for any sort of multi-tasking, and the documentation was mostly in Chinese.<p>Marty looks great, backed. Looking forward to playing robots in 2017!
Google is working on similar concept. But Marty is more advanced with 2 legs. Educational toy market combined with programming is drawing lots of interest as a trend.
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