VIDEO: Spykee Cell and Spykee Vox robots

Land in the UK and we get hands on treatment with both

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6 February 2009 0:16 GMT / By Stuart Miles

Announced over a year ago at CES in Las Vegas, Meccano has finally got around to launching the Spykee Cell and Spykee Vox here in the UK and Pocket-lint managed to get a hands on with them at the London Toy Fair.

Expected on toy store shelves in the next couple of weeks, the build-it-yourself-robots will offer users either control from their mobile phone or voice.

The Spykee "Cell" (very American we know) can be controlled via a mobile phone using Bluetooth. Cell moves, sees and takes pictures, its head is motorized, and features voice transformation as well as many light and sound effects.

In addition, Spykee Cell is compatible with iPods so you can use the little robot as a speaker and see your iPod playlist on the screen of your phone. Spykee Cell also works as a Bluetooth speakerphone - when someone calls your phone you can answer, speak and listen and hang up through the robot.

Spykee Vox are interactive robots that work via a voice-activation feature. Meccano states these robots express emotion, responding to the human voice with various movements, facial expressions, sounds and light effects.