Roboboa slithers its way to the USA

While WowWee's dancing Roboboa robot has already made its way into a few select parts of the world, those in the US have so far had a considerable harder time getting their hands on one. That looks to have now changed in a big way, however, as the so-called "alien with attitude" is now available directly from WowWee for an even $100. As WowWee is quick to point out, the bot can do more than just dance (although surely that would have been enough), with it also able to double as a desk lamp, an alarm clock, and even a "scanning room guard." Just don't let it get near your modded Robosapien, unless you want things to get ugly.

[Thanks, Robert]

[engadget @ Oct 15th 2007 3:04PM]

No it's not our new snake overlord, and no it will not play doom.
Still it's a cool toy though.

[Joe @ Oct 15th 2007 3:21PM]

No, its a dancing, scanning room guard overload. I, for one, welcome it.

[John @ Oct 15th 2007 6:05PM]

I, for one, welcome our dancing, scanning room guard -overlords- and would like to point out that your humble servant was carefully subservient and accurate in his spelling of "overlord", asking that in return when your glorious robotic reign begins, you make all other posters my bitches, in your mercy.

[oshean @ Oct 15th 2007 3:07PM]

The bastard offspring of the Rubik's Twist and Gary Coleman.

[oshean @ Oct 15th 2007 3:08PM]

The bastard offspring of the Rubik's Twist and Gary Coleman.

[Dankoozy @ Oct 15th 2007 3:09PM]

I think the title of this post should have "Keeps you single" in it

[Jeffrey Rubin @ Oct 15th 2007 3:42PM]

Are there really that many readers of engadget that care about every toy Wowwee makes? I love 98% of the things you cover, but I just can't imagine that many people follow this. Perpetual motion bafoonery = good. Toy (nonkillbots, not useful, not japanese) robots = eh. Just my 2 cents. Maybe I'm way off.

[JC @ Oct 15th 2007 4:06PM]

I think we need 50% less Wowee, 40% more Pleo. Then Engadget would kick ass.

[Jeffrey Rubin @ Oct 15th 2007 5:50PM]

Maybe I should have been more clear. I mean all toy robots. Roomba at least has a useful function. Pleo included in my comment

[Boynamedsue @ Oct 15th 2007 3:46PM]

whew. for a while i thought i was going to actually have to have a doctor do that prostate exam.

[brutha-man @ Oct 15th 2007 4:13PM]

War of the Worlds?

[steve @ Oct 15th 2007 5:06PM]

i'm glad someone else noticed it

[zeig @ Oct 15th 2007 5:49PM]

lets take it inside you asshole and make some notes

[john @ Oct 15th 2007 8:02PM]

The appropriate size for a Apple fanboy colonoscopy.

[narry @ Oct 17th 2007 2:36AM]

looks like that thing from war of the worlds

[docsharp01 @ Mar 31st 2008 9:54PM]

Excellent article and comments about the Roboboa.
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