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Front likened it to "an abstract robot with a baseball cap ... Early projects include Design by Animals, a project featuring wallpaper knawed by a rat and hooks shaped by snakes, and Sketch ...

Plus, it would have connected (no pun intended) the phone with the introduction of the new C1 modem — which is a bigger deal than Apple made it seem — for some cute, geeky brand synergy.

Plenty of robots stick to a pair of driven wheels to keep locomotion simple. If you’re bold though, or just like creepy crawlies, you might instead appreciate this cute scorpion robot build.

Oh, and did we mention it has a software stack? Speaking of stacks, check out Stack-chan, a JavaScript super-cute desktop robot communicator and assistant. This one is meant to sit on your desk ...

At $249, it's a little pricey, but you're getting a pretty sophisticated robot that impresses right from the start. You can train it, drive it, and control it to an insanely high degree of precision.