Star Wars First Order Stormtrooper Robot

Unboxing the robot was pretty awesome. You can tell they put a lot of time into the design of the packaging by how heavy it is. Inside the cover sleeve, the box is pitch black. An emblem of the First Order is on the front and upon opening, you are greeted with your own mini-stormtrooper robot. Taking it out of the box and placing it on the table, the robot stands about as tall as a paper towel roll, I’m pretty sure that is an official scientific unit of measurement. The robot has exaggerated features, like an oversized F-11D blaster rifle, an oversized helmet and big ol’ feet. It’s pretty cute, for a stormtrooper. I didn’t need the instructions to download the companion app to my iPhone and the set-up was intuitive and painless; I did it when I was half-asleep. After my stormtrooper barked out its serial number, I entered the code and was able to connect and control the robot from my iPhone. So far, I have only explored a few of the functionalities. To be honest, I’m not really a gamer and I am more interested in the robot as a collector of Star Wars stuff. With that said, I’m not the most experienced person to review the missions and the quality of game play versus other apps. I thought it was fun to walk the robot around the room and took the greatest pleasure with running it into my wifes’ feet over and over! In the missions, the AR is pretty cool. It’s kinda crazy to even think about the fact that, on my iPhone, I’m looking at a live AR simulation that is being seen by a robot that is walking around the room. And that was another cool thing about the robot: you can control the robot from another room and the there is zero latency between the camera and the phone operation. The robot does take smaller steps than I assumed it would, but it kinda makes sense so that it doesn’t end up walking into a wall during gameplay. It can be pretty fun to walk into a wall over and over, though. Especially if you have young kids!