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Petoi Bittle Robot Dog
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IN BRIEF
A modular beginner’s robot kit that offers the ability for Scratch-level coding and enhancing the base kit with additional sensors, servos and more advanced coding languages.
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Quadruped robots aren’t new, but they’re as cool and fascinating today as they were a few decades ago when they first surfaced. Bittle is a programmable robot dog targeted at robotic beginners ages 14 years and up, or anyone who wants to have fun learning and playing with robots. Priced at £310 (assembled), it comes programmed with a few starter tricks, such as walk and trot, that learners can try out to familiarise themselves with what the robot can do, then later expand to more complex types of behaviour.