Sony Toio is a mashup of tiny cube robots and game consoles
Sony Toio is a mashup of tiny cube robots and game consoles Sony might not be a name you’d immediately associate with robotic toys, but it does, or rather did, have a few under its name, from the dog-like Aibo to the the “dancing” Rolly to, more recently, the KOOV robotics kit. It isn’t done yet, however, and a Toio product may be just over the horizon. Aimed at very young learners, Toio mixes papercraft, tiny rolling robot cubes, and a system that resembles a gaming console, complete with controllers and even cartridges. It’s somewhat hard to describe Toio in one phrase beyond being an educational robotics system. It is practically made up of three parts. There are the robots, which are practically white cubes with wheels, sensors, and a downward facing camera underneath. And then there’s controller, which takes the form of a miniature console. The base has two slots for charging up to two robots, and two ring controllers with motion sensors for manually controlling the ...
