It's either this or https://mondorobotics.com/ and I'm torn. Obviously it's for my daughter and I will just be safety checking, definitely, 100%.

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Philip-J-Fry an hour ago | parent | next [-]

That's a completely different class of robot. The Beni robot is just a toy, it's just connect the app and drive it around, record videos and do some fancy tricks like flips. It is not meant to be a platform you program yourself.

The Microduck is meant to be a hacker toy. Train it yourself, write software, hack it, etc.

It depends what you're trying to get for your daughter. Is it something to get her into robotics? Then probably the Microduck is the way. If it's literally just a toy, then the Beni robot is better because that's literally all it is.

	▲	asadm 6 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The creators of Beni seem to have promised that the platform will be open (including sim2real parts of Beni). I have ordered Beni for my family. It's sturdy and more practical for careless fun.
	▲	_joel an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		yes to both :)

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monkeydust 44 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I got this for my kids https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doly/doly-more-than-a-r... earlier this year (after a much longer than expected wait on Kickstarter)...was good for a bit and had some fun but mostly gathering dust now. Occasionally will come out if friends are over.

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neom an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

MKBHD covered Beni the other day and it looks like a super super fun toy. Not sure about the educational value, but I was thinking about getting one for the kid in my life (me). https://youtu.be/mfmdXPT7nAM?t=592 (9:52)

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lumost an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

As a kick-starter project is this thing actually real? My experience with kick-starter has been that the projects are almost universally faked.

	▲	_joel an hour ago \| parent [-]
		totally, it's on MKBKD video posted in other comments. I watched it last week and hence why I'm split

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serf an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I believe the Microduck camera footage (the ad - reel) about 1000x more than the Mondo one.

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quadrature an hour ago | parent | next [-]

For what it’s worth the mondo team has been posting development log videos on Reddit since before they incorporated. They raised money so they now have ads with more production value, but they came from small beginnings and I do trust their product.

	▲	sowrabh an hour ago \| parent [-]
		FWIW Beni also figured in MKBHD's review recently and he had good things to say about it too - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfmdXPT7nAM&t=590s

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vavos an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

The mondo beni bot was featured on mkbhd recently looked to work pretty well and got a positive review, for what's that's worth [0]

[0] - https://youtu.be/mfmdXPT7nAM

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unglaublich 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Will Beni/monodorobotics have open source software, or at least a hackable stack?

	▲	amelius an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Hey we're on HN where __anything__ is hackable :) (Except iDevices of course)