A poor girl's QRIO

Bradley has informed me that this will be my first robot. It's no QRIO, but it's a start -- a $250 DIY bot that will be released in August.

Four years after its release, [Mindstorm] version 2.0 still sells 40,000 units a year at $199 a pop -- with no advertising -- and has become Lego's all-time best-selling product. The market is almost evenly split between parents buying the kit for their budding engineers and grown-up geeks who build Mindstorms robots that can scale walls, solve Rubik's Cubes, or pick blue M&Ms out of a pile.

(I wonder how my cat will take it?)

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