The colors are familiar and there's a telltale Robosapien logo on the chest, but WowWee's new Roboquad looks unlike any toy or robot you've seen before. With four "legs," a body like a 1970s airport ...

In the 1997 film Fast, Cheap & Out of Control, documentarian Errol Morris took a look at a variety of eccentric characters whose work blurred the line between the human, the animal, and the mechanical ...

First impressions of Roboquad are good. Its four spider-like legs are jointed in such a way that they can spin round 360 degrees, an idea that came from the creator’s days as a NASA scientist ...

I've been a tech journalist for almost 25 years and started Pocket-lint in 2003. Over the years I've questioned or interviewed leading tech industry figures from Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, Mark ...

Called the Roboquad -- and formerly known as, ahem, SpiderSapien -- this four-legged critter is said to possess unprecedented mobility and locational awareness: although official specs and deets (and ...

Forget remote controlled rollers, RC walkers are the new wave. The Wowwee Roboquad is one of the latest to hit the shelves. The robot has a unique body shape; WowWee calls it a "true robotic arthropod ...

As much as I admire the technology inside Wow Wee's latest, the Roboquad, there's something about a scuttling spider-robot that freaks me out. Perhaps it's partly to do with the degree of AI that ...

WowWee's Roboquad gives me the creeps. There, I've said it. It's Robosapien may have been a vaguely friendly ape-like bot, but this multi-legged arachnoid/crab hybrid monster thing obviously triggers ...

If you're looking to add yet another anthropomorphic automaton to your growing robotic zoo, hit the Read link for your chance to pre-order Wowwee's spider-esque Roboquad. Shipping as soon as they roll ...

We’ve all been waiting to see how the fabled WoWee Roboquad crawls. Now we know. The four-legged bot moves in all directions, has 3 different speeds, and a deep IR scanner to spot movements up to 13 ...

At CES 2007, we take a look at this robot that uses radar to get around.