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Pretty cool little robot. I wish the servos were a bit more robust, but it functions ok.

A good starter robotics kit . Step by step guide (on-line) to assemble and program a robot with explanations along the way.

Does not come with battery. Also, the tutorial comes with a nice text file a pleasant hacker left staying they have the entire world edit access to the tutorial, which means it could have malate if another bot so pleasant hacker left something else. Disgusting product targeting children to potentially spread malware.

I ordered this robot kit from Acebott for my 13-year-old, so he can get his feet wet in the world of robotics. I have other Acebott products and have generally been pleased with them.This robot has been fun for him to build, and the online instructions were clear enough for him to work through it on his own. I helped here and there along the way.The robot looks pretty cool and comes with various "masks" to decorate the face. Everything necessary to build the robot is included, and the parts are good quality. However, we did run into two issues:1. When he went to test it, nothing would happen. I took a look and there wasn't any power even though he had installed freshly charged batteries. After inspecting the batteries, I saw that he had grabbed a set that had flat ends. We swapped them from button-top ones, and that fixed this issue.2. Even though he was now getting power, the robot still didn't work. The motors would just hum. After trying a few things, I asked him if he had initialized the motors before installing them. He missed that part of the instructions, so we wrote some quick code (similar to the included Servo_90 example) to initialize the motors to the 90 degree position then reinstalled them. This time the robot worked just fine. It waddles across the floor.Overall, this is a nicely designed kit for a beginner, but they will probably need a little guidance.

This kit is very nicely designed. My son had a lot of fun putting it together. The instructions are a very long and detailed PDF that you download, which is a great choice compared to paper instructions as they can include so much detail.The problem is that they don't include the 18650 button top rechargeable battery that you need. The listing doesn't tell you that you need that specific battery, just that the battery isn't included. I downloaded the manual and documentation and saw that I needed this battery, so I ordered it. When it came time to put it in, it was quite difficult to fit in and the plastic for the battery holder broke.I double checked that I bought the correct battery. I did, it is the 18650 in the button top variety that they specified (comes in flat top as well). This battery even fits in their other robot car just fine and that one is also supposed to take an 18650. I emailed the company (they were very responsive) and they asked what the dimensions of the battery were. I measured it with some calipers that I have and it's just about 69mm. They said I need one that is 65mm.I did some more digging and there are protected and unprotected versions of the battery. I got the protected one (the manufacturer's manual didn't specify protected or unprotected). The protected ones are a few mm longer than unprotected. To the manufacturer's credit, they did offer to send me a new one of the board that has the battery holder in it. The problem is that now I have to go out and buy yet another battery and my son has already put it together, so he would have to disassemble and reassemble it again. I currently have it working with some rubber bands around it, holding the broken piece in place. I think I'll probably just keep it that way.The battery should really be included in this kit. If they don't want to include it, they should very clearly mark on the product page, not just that you need a battery, but the specific type of battery you need. When a listing says "battery not included", then I thinking AA or AAA batteries or something common like that. I'm not thinking it's going to be battery 18650 in the button top variety and unprotected. And even when I looked up their documentation it didn't tell me to get the unprotected version. Unless someone is already familiar with these batteries, they aren't going to know that protected also means slightly bigger. and, even if they did, they aren't going to know which one this is designed for. The whole thing is needlessly complicated.All of that being said, it is a nice quality kit, minus the battery issues. It says for 8 and up, but take that with a grain of salt. I got this one and the car kit for my 2 10 year old boys. They are both pretty technical minded and do lots of complicated Lego kits. They were able to do a lot of it by themselves, but some steps they just don't have the hand strength to do at that age. Also, most kids will need help with the software side of it as well. Installing the various software and drivers on you computer and such. The program is a version of Scratch (a graphical programing tool). My kids already know how to use that, so that wasn't a problem. If your kids don't, it's fairly easy and free to use Scratch online.If it weren't for the battery issues, this would be a 5 star review. If you are willing to deal with that, or already have the batteries, then this kit would be a great choice. If not, I reluctantly can't recommend it.

This review is for the ACEBOTT Bionic Biped Coding Robot Kit.I'm not new to ACEBOTT as a brand, but this was my first exposure with one of their robotic toys. This product is an amazing project to introduce yourself to programming and robotics.Putting this little guy together was an extremely rewarding experience, and then programming and coding it was even more fun. Beyond the main present actions that this comes with, you can then design your own actions.The app has been fairly easy to use so far, and I really appreciate the extra content on ACEBOTT's official website.The included masks are great, but you can even design your own masks if you are crafty.The only downside to this product is the constant reminder in the description that this product is intended for kids and teens, when many adults may have missed out on similar opportunities in their youth and could greatly benefit from something like this.