robothut Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 The patent was applied for in 1983 and granted in 1988. Verbot was one of the first toys that could actualy tell the difference from one word or sound from another. For example remember Electro at the 1939 worlds fair "no I was not there" he had voice command but it worked by detecting the pause between sounds and counting these pauses just like a old rotory phone counted the contact closeures. There have been other toys that had so called voice command controls as well but these were like Robot Commando (breath control) or counted pauses as well. But the realy cool part of VERBOT is not the voice control its actualy the motor gearbox design. It a automated version of the gear box in Robot COmmando in that 1 motor runs almost everything, the computer control's the gear box shifter and the main motor does the rest. Other toys have used this single motor design like the TOMY ARMOTRON toy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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robothut Posted May 30, 2010 Author Share Posted May 30, 2010 There are 15 more pages of just text that I can add if anyone wants to read it, other wise being on dial up I will hold off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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