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Meet the MOSS Modular Robots (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on from the one-day-they-will-be-sentient-but-not-quite-yet dept.

The MOSS modular robot system is sort of like LEGO Mindstorms, in that you assemble small blocks to make custom robots and other items. But it has some interesting tricks of its own, as product demonstrator John Moyes shows Timothy Lord at CES 2014. The MOSS kits include lots of little metal balls, so they carry a warning that says MOSS kits are suitable for ages 8 and up, while the company's older Cubelets product, which doesn't have the little balls, is supposed to be okay for ages 4 and up. There is no upper age limit specified for either product, so you're probably safe if you want to buy (and can *afford* to buy) any of these interesting toys.

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  1. Re:Useless summary by mythosaz · · Score: 2

    As a 9 year old reading this site, I found the 8-and-up information quite informative, you insensitive clod.

  2. Anybody else looking a the metal balls thinking... by denis-The-menace · · Score: 3, Funny

    Anybody else looking a the metal balls thinking...

    Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!

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  3. Re:Because there is absolutely no chance by chispito · · Score: 2

    of an 8 year old swallowing these magnetic balls by accident and then dying of a perforated bowel.

    Couldn't be bothered to watch the first 20s of the video before posting?

    "...these are just steel spheres, and their are magnets that are injection-molded into the plastics here..."

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  4. Pick a new name, Moss is already taken... by KPexEA · · Score: 2

    http://fuckyeahmauricemoss.tum...