Best Robotic Toys for Christmas 2013: The Top 7 Robots Your Kids Will Love

He can do a backflip! He has multi-colored expressive eyes. He can respond to your hand gestures, voice commands, and to light and darkness. When it's dark, he will curl up beside you on your bed, or guard your bedroom all night. He has about twenty facial expressions. You can also program him from a tablet. For instance, you can create a dance routine to the song of your choice. Great companion robot.

2. Attacknids

If you're looking for more of a combat robot, this is what you want to get. The Attacknids are like giant spiders with six legs, and several different ways of shooting things. They can navigate over rough terrain and have a battle with other robots or each other. Or you can use them to knock down a Lego tower, dominoes or other stuff. Plus they look really cool. These are controlled by an easy-to-use remote control. Great for shooting stuff. Has 'attack' in the name for a reason.

3. RoboMe

RoboMe is a cute little robot with two arms that moves around on a wheeled base. You put an iPod or smartphone on him for his head. You can program this little guy to do lots of things. He will 'learn' new things as you use him and interact with him. Fun personality. Put him in 'roam mode,' and he will sense his environment and talk as he moves around exploring.

4. Sphero, the Smartphone-controlled Robot Ball

Sphero is a great new robot toy ball you control it with your smart phone. It's about the size of a billiard ball, and you make it roll fast or slow, left or right. It has about 20 games and apps you can download. You can race it or do obstacle courses. It even rolls through water. It can also be used as a controller for video games and some other ways. A shoutout to ArtificialBrain.net for helping me discover this one.

5. BattroBorg

BattroBorg is another exciting robotic fighting game. Two motion-controlled robots slug it out in a ring, controlled by you using a Wii-like device. You win by hits to the face or a knock-down. You can battle against 'targets' for practice or against an automatic opponent, a drone.

6. Robosapien Humanoid Toy Robot

This guy can walk, which most of the others can't. With your remote control, you can make him walk, turn, back up, talk, and swing a fist. He is 14" tall and is pretty flexible and fast. Number four on the list is the Nerf N-Strike Elite Rapidstrike CS-18 Blaster. Say that three times fast!  The Rapidstrike is part of a growing Elite family of toys that fire safe, foam darts at distances up to 75 feet.  Between the Blaster itself and the ammo clip, you get 18 shot capacity.

What makes this Elite different from the rest of the family is the 18 shots. Others in this line hold 6 or 12 darts. In our opinion, this is the best of the family for just that reason. They all are fun, but the Rapidstrike keeps the fun going a little longer each time.

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