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Gifted this to my 8 year old grandson for Christmas. He enjoys educational “toys”. There are individual packets to work on with easy step by step he can do with minimal supervision. Each module is not motorized which was his comment. Not designed for that! Would buy again.

My 8 year old loved this! Great quality and easy to follow instructions.

I bought this product with a few considerations in mind, but left with a few more points of interest than what I bargained for. I originally bought this as a STEM gift for my son that he could do himself.Here's what we thought after building one of the robots in this kit:The STEM concepts you will find in the booklets are solid. We built the obstacle avoidance robot first, and right on the front page it explains how the robot does what it does and what concepts it utilizes.The instructions were fairly well written and there were pictures for each step in the process. There was only one time where I had to piece together that we had to flip over the whole robot to start building on the top.Now for the gripes:It's definitely not something a 6 year old can do by themselves. The screws and wires for these projects are SMALL, and I'm lucky that we didn't lose anything important (although the kit we built did come with a few extra screws, which was nice.)The robot itself works fine, but it's not very sturdy, and you can't use every fastening point that the different parts come with since all the panels are universal in nature.

We got these for our grand kids for Christmas. They really enjoyed putting them together. They were having fun and didn’t even realize they were learning at the same time.

The media could not be loaded. We put together two of the little packets with my 7 year old nephew, and of those two, only one of them worked. The orange plastic in the 1st one was warped and the screw holes didn't line up. See included video. That bot sort of inch-wormed its way forward for a bit and then started smelling like burning plastic. It didnt avoid or turn away from objects like promised either.The propeller on the 2nd bot turned, but it didn't push the bot forward as it was supposed to. But, as you can see, after I loosened the wheels, it did move as it was supposed to. So, hint: keep the wheels nice and loose.Nephew was so excited when it actually worked. The excitement lasted for 2 minutes, because the bot drove off the table and the propeller shattered. It didn't work after that.Thought this stem kit would be great in my nephew's Easter basket. He loved it, as he loves all things stem, but in the end we were all ultimately disappointed.Pros: the kid loved that the bots were "cute." He's 7, and he anthropomorphizes everything. Googly eyes go a long way with little kids.Cons: it was too hard for this 7 year old to do on his own. Truth be told, it was hard for me. Not difficult to comprehend or disypher the instructions but tricky, because all the parts and screws are so small. Even his tiny hands had a hard time with it. Also, when you take the ends off the wires, they are frayed, which makes it hard to thread them through a hole and then wrap them around.It was nice to do an activity together for Easter instead of just eating candy. But next time, I'll go with a different stem kit.

Wonderful purchase! My son loves robots and building and these are the best purchase we have made in a while! He is 8 and we got these last year at age 7 and he was able to put together follow directions pretty well. We helped him with a few little things. Will definitely buy more!

Got this toy for my nephew! And started to get so many photos from my sister with my nephew playing, constructing, inventing and creating with it! Wonderful resource for media free time!