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These Educational Robots Are Insane!
Aug 18, 2024
In this video, I'll review the 4 best educational coding robots, Learning Resources Code & Go Robot Mouse Activity Set, Botley 2.0, Sphero mini, and Teach Mech 5, and show you what it looks like and what it's like to build. Check it out here: https://amzn.to/49FdOaG (if you buy anything through this link, I may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. It's how I support the channel)
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Hi, I'm Jan from Kidz Toy Studio and I'm here today with the four best coding robots
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We have Botley 2.0, we have the Teach Mac 5, we have a Sphero here, Sphero Mini
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and we have the Code & Go Robot Mouse. Now each of these have some different strengths and let's go over those in just a little bit
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First, let's look at the age range here. So the Code & Go Robot Mouse is best for four-year-olds and you can grow with it to about six
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Four and five is best for this one. Then the Botley 2.0, that's fun from around five to about ten years old
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So five, six and seven is the best age for this one. Then we have the Sphero Mini, which is great for, well my five-year-old also plays with it
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but it becomes a little bit more fun with seven, eight, nine, ten. And the Teach Mac 5 here, which is a little bit more intricate, that is more for ten plus, so for teenagers
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So that is the different age ranges here. Now, three of these are completely screen-free coding
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You have the Robot Mouse, Botley and the Teach Mac 5. They are completely screen-free
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And the Sphero Mini here, that uses an app. So you need an app to be able to steer that
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That also makes it a little bit more fun, I think, for children
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But it also is a weakness because it's only for learning coding. So it's also more of an RC toy
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So my son, well he's five, but he also uses this just as an RC toy
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which is a little bit different than what it's supposed to be used for
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And they all have some cool accessories. So the Coding Robot Mouse, you can move over the grid here
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And it's very easy to attach extra of these grid pieces. You can make your own mazes here or use the supply challenges
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So that's also pretty fun. The Botley also has the cardboard pieces here to make the first few challenges
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But you grow out of that pretty fast. And then Botley is just used on the floor
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So without any of these pieces. That makes it a little bit more open and a little bit more fun
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And you can use the supplied controller here to steer it and code in sequences
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which steps you want him to take. So that's also pretty cool
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And it's a really fun robot and it seems to have its own style
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So it reacts differently to the way you code it. His eyes light up and he makes fun little noises and sounds
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So this really speaks to a little bit younger children than for example
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these Fero Mini that just gives a color and it rolls around like a ball
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So you steer it with your phone and then it rolls around like a ball
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which is pretty fun. So it's fun to do just as an RC toy and steering it around
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or making mazes with supplied additional pieces that you get. You can steer this around and move through like mazes
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There are a few different ways to steer this. So that's also cool. And I think the addition of the phone is also educational
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although a little bit less than learning coding. You learn how to use your phone to connect to things in the real world
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So that's also pretty valuable, I think, in this day and age
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But you can also code this on your phone with steps in sequence
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and input them on your phone. So that works a little bit more intuitively than you can do with Botley
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or the coding mouse, where you just need to input them here in the controller
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and you can't really see what you input previously. So you just have to, well, remember and well, more try and hit and miss here
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So those are the differences between those three. And then the Teach Mac 5 here, that's a whole different robot altogether
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It's a little bit cheaper and that's because it's like a building set
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So you get all of these separate pieces for it. Then you need to put it together yourself
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So that's also why it's for older kids. Obviously, I put this together myself
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My five-year-old wasn't able to do that. And he hasn't been able to play with it as well
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because also playing with it is pretty difficult. Now, the cool thing here is that you get all of these different attachments for it
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It isn't so much challenges for this as more different attachments and then you can find out how to use them yourself
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So you have a grabber, lift. You have a shot that you can launch a ball from his back
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You can also play soccer. So it's like a little kicking leg on the front
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and you code using these little pieces on the front of the wheel here
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So every piece stands for a different action. Just a little bit forward or turning to the side
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So that also makes this a little less intuitive because you have to remember what all the pieces do
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and you also have to see how far it will move when doing that
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And then you also have these pieces to a special move like the throwing of the ball or the kicking of the ball
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So this really is for older children. It was fun to put together and you also learn a lot about how these pieces work
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So that's also very educational. So if you have a little older child then I'd recommend the Teach Mag 5
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or the Sphero which is just fun to play around with. So these are the different choices you have when looking for an educational robot
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for different age groups and with different functionality
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