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Review on GILOBABY Kids Robot Toys: Voice Controlled Touch Sensor Speech Recognition, Singing & Dancing For Ages 3-8 by Dave Sidhu

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Overall fun robot with faults

We gave this to my 4 year old son for his robot themed birthday. Overall he really likes it but I immediately noticed some pretty obvious flaws.First of all, it does fall down when it bumps into objects but we expected this after reading other reviews. So, this isn't a huge deal.So far it has not responded a single time to the command "Sleep", which is one of the listed verbal commands in the manual. There are other commands that it responds to most of the time, but sometimes just sits there or does an unpredictable response. The 'come here' command is pretty hit or miss. Of course it has a harder time understanding what my 4 year old says, but its still not super reliable when I speak clearly to it.Also the "can you dance?" voice command only works about half the time. Sometimes the robot just sits there and sometimes it dances. There is a "soliloquy" voice command that elicits a few different responses that seems to work every time, but of course that's a word that a 4 year old can't say! Why in the world would such a difficult word be part of the programming for a child's toy?My son likes to use it in the "voice repeat mode", which is when it repeats everything you say in a funny little robot voice. You can also leave up to three voice recordings on it which took me a little while to figure out exactly how to do this, but is a fun feature.Right away I noticed the robot doesn't do anything when you say "hello" to it, which seems obvious to me that should be part of its programming. That's literally the first thing a small child would say to a robot and it would be perfect if the robot said something like "Hello buddy!" in response.Overall I'm glad we bought it but my son has at times gotten frustrated because the robots responses aren't super reliable. And he REALLY wants the robot to say hello after he says hello. Hopefully it keeps his attention and his frustration with it doesn't increase.

Pros
  • Speech recognition technology promotes language development and communication skills
Cons
  • Not worth the price for the features offered