I think robots are cool. I bought my son a robosapien, he's cool and their are people out ther modifying them with fm audio receivers and video transmitters and hand held computers attached to their circuit boards for increased computing power, I even saw one with a mini-blowtorch attached to his back and it made a flamethrower from his left hand through a tube fed through his elbow into his hand. Pretty wild. You can see what I mean here.

http://home.planet.nl/~pruim006/

I also need to add that there is another site about modifying the robosapien from one of, if not the first known pioneers of robosapien modifications, Jackie Samans here is an article site about some of his work:

http://home.comcast.net/~robosapien/servomain.htm

Cool, each person has their own hobbies and this one can be considered among those cool hobbies, I hate to admit but I don't have much info about Robosapiens.

Well I really wasn't thinking about the people who really hadn't heard much about them, their official site is here:

http://www.wowwee.com/robosapien/robo1/robomain.html

They are produced by the wowee corporation. They can be purchased from around $70-$100 usd for the standard models. Try searching http://www.pricegrabber.com for some comparative shopping on them if you like.

When robosapiens first came out I didn't think it was worth it's price because it didn't do very much. Much hasn't changed but maybe some of these mods will change my mind. I enjoy building and modifying electronics.

I have an iCybie robot dog, had him for a couple of years now. This modding gives me some ideas. Maybe I could mod him a little.

The Cybie is a little more advanced than the robosapian, but not too much its a dumbed down version of the Sony Aibo robot dog. He has sensors that allow him to walk around and avoid obsticles, you don't really control him with a remote. He can be taught to respond to voice commands, but it doesn't really work that well. There are clap commands that work much better. He will even follow you around based on clapping. I know that the company that was making them went under, so if your son is into robots you may be able to pick one up on ebay on the cheap.