SYSTEM TO CONTROL SEMI-AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS IN INTERACTIVE ROBOT GAMING

摘要

An interactive robot gaming system comprising a remote control unit and one or more semi-autonomous mobile toy robots is provided. The remote control unit (10) has a processor, a display and control means for remotely controlling one or more semi-autonomous mobile toy robots. The semi- autonomous mobile toy robot (12) comprises an onboard control unit (62) and a memory (100) on which is stored gaming software which includes various software routines of autonomous operating modes. The onboard control unit (62) is configured to receive a high level command instruction (120) from the remote control unit (10) and in response to receiving the high level command instruction from the remote control unit, executes the software routine related to the high level command instruction thereby to autonomously perform actions in a programmable manner according to the software routine within a robot gaming environment without further command instructions from the remote control unit.