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Micro-Robotics Bring Low-Cost Sensors To Children’s Toys

Micro-Robotics Bring Low-Cost Sensors To Children’s Toys

By Kyle Studstill on March 2, 2010

The Hexbug line of micro-robotic devices were featured at this year’s New York Toy Fair. Marketed as low-cost toys, each variety of different bug-inspired model features a combination of touch, light, and auditory sensors to mimic the behavior of real creatures.

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Kyle Studstill is a regular contributor to PSFK.com. Kyle works as a consultant working at the New York office of PSFK. His background is in analysis, from the analysis of cultural and technological change, to analysis of consumer and human insight, to military intelligence analysis with the US Intelligence and Security Command. Kyle loves the future, much like O'Brien from Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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