Thames & Kosmos My Robotic Pet: Coding Chameleon STEM Building & Experiment Kit | Color-Sensing Coding Robot for Boys & Girls Ages 8+, Screen-Free Educational Fun, Robotic Reptile with 3 Play Modes
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- BUILD, CODE, PLAY & LEARN: Construct a robotic reptile pal that responds to your gestures, changes colors, and automatically fires and retracts its tongue!
- INNOVATIVE ENGINEERING: The expertly designed 15-inch-long model includes articulated eyes, torso, and leg joints to simulate realistic movements.
- FULLY EQUIPPED FOR UNPLUGGED CODING LESSONS: The robot utilizes a color sensor, infrared sensor, and RGB LEDs that allow kids to use physical colored action cards to program the robot to move and react in different ways; no screens, devices, or software required!
- THREE UNIQUE PLAY MODES: In Coding Mode, use the action cards to program your pet to carry out a series of movements; in Wild Mode, your chameleon will camouflage and change its color to match its surroundings; in Pet Mode, this one-of-a-kind robotic reptile reacts to your touch!
- AUTHENTIC LEARNING WITH COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE: The 48-page manual guides kids through assembly (ages 8+ with help from an adult; 12+ for independent play), encourages exploration of robotic components, and teaches about how nature can inspire, improve, and solve engineering design problems.
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Build a loyal robotic reptile buddy that responds to your gestures, changes colors, and automatically fires and retracts its tongue! This first-of-its- kind robotic chameleon is equipped with a color sensor, infrared sensor, and RGB LEDs that allow you to code and program it in three unique play modes. In Coding Mode, you’ll use the included colorful action cards to program your pet to carry out a series of movements. In Wild Mode, the chameleon will camouflage and turn into the color of its surroundings, stalk possible prey, and shoot its tongue out at objects that might be a yummy treat! Finally, in Pet Mode, your robot pal gets friendly, walking around searching for you and showing its excitement when you pet it. In addition to learning how the robotic components are utilized in real-life devices, you’ll also gain insight into how biomimicry looks to natural and organic systems to inspire, improve, and solve engineering design challenges.
Product Dimensions: 10 x 4.7 x 11 inches
Item Weight: 1.51 pounds
Item model number: 620507
Manufacturer recommended age: 8 years and up
Release date: June 19, 2025
Manufacturer: Thames & Kosmos
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*Unfinished build, will come back and update review when done* We are still working on building this but I figured I’d go ahead and write my review because this will take a few months haha. I wanted to wait till it was done todo a true, full review but yeah, taking way longer than expected so I’ll go ahead now. So….wow! What a fun toy! I was so happy to get this for my 10 year old son and he LOVES it! I’ve always been a big fan of Thames and Kosmos kits and have bought a few over the years for my daughter, so I’m glad my son has a chance to try one out now too! So first off….100% adult help is needed. I think even a 12 year old would need adult help…my son is almost 11 and needed full help with everything. He helped me read instructions and find parts but for the most part it was me snapping things on and determining the right direction to place everything. My son would read the instructions and try to tell me a certain part goes a certain way but he was off. Oh, and he couldn’t snap the parts off the bases, he needed me to do a lot of them (some he was afraid to do himself because he was afraid he’d break them, but the plastic is very durable. Others he tried his best and couldn’t snap them off). There are just sooooo many details and instructions and soooo many tiny parts. Even me as an adult I sometimes needed both video and instruction booklet help to make sure I was doing certain tricky parts right. Which by the way I’m extremely thankful for the video instructions and I advise anyone having trouble to use them (along with the booklet, at certain times the video was more helpful and certain times the book was more helpful). It’s coming together very slowly, I think we’re about 15% done so far, we’ve had it about a month but admittedly only worked on it a few times. It’s just hard to find the time/motivation after work because as I said he needs full help and it takes a lot to set everything up and get started and maintain my own motivation throughout (no shortage of motivation on my son’s part haha he keeps asking when we can do more). I wish I could review functionality etc but I’ll try to come back later after we’re done so I can review how well the chameleon works. My son read up on how it will work and can’t wait to actually get to play with it!
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Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2025 by Mom to 4/Teacher Mom to 4/Teacher
Another STEM hit from Thames & Kosmos. I’ll admit, for an eight year old to do this by themselves may be too much. Everything is straight forward though on assembly and all. Great project for any kid who enjoys projects like this.
Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2025 by Heath Detweiler
I have mixed feelings about this toy. First: the level of assembly required was much higher than seems appropriate for a toy. The pieces can't be reused in new toys, so it's not like a building block set. You snap the plastic pieces off of a series of mold frames, sand them a bit, and attach them with screws. It's a very intricate toy with many very small parts, wire pathing, and super tiny screws, and it takes hours to assemble, across dozens of pages of instructions. The notion an 8 year old child is going to do this is amusing, but of course parental involvement is expected. The toy is larger than expected at around the size of an adult's foot (the manual says 15 inches, but some of that is the tail). Once assembled, your chameleon is nicely detailed. About a fifth of the chameleon is part of the tummy area, which is white, and has a light inside that will match cards or other stimulus. This isn't really camouflage, and the toy doesn't blend in with anything, but it kinda matches things around it, which my kids did find very entertaining. Put the lizard on a blue counter, and the stomach area shows a blue light. You also have cards with other instructions for the lizard, which is a car on four wheels, to roll around, rotate around, go backwards, etc. You can give it a series of these instructions and it should go through them, but we had trouble getting it to work reliably. At any rate, notice that it's not like the lizard walks around, jumps, or has any robotic features like that. It's a car with plastic (dead and unmotorized) limbs sticking out that only articulate when pushed around. It does have a 'tongue' spear thing too. The toy is not very durable, and I worry that with assembly being difficult, fixing it would also be an inevitable problem. Losing a screw or a leg probably won't change the robot too much. I don't know what the educational value is here. I get that lizards can change color to camouflage, but this is merely a tribute to that activity. It's nothing like how that process works in nature. I suppose if the adult does the assembly, and later a kid gets to play, that is fun for them, but that's no different from buying a working toy off the shelf. There is essentially no educational value to the assembly or even the 'coding' process (given the low reliability of that process and the extremely simple 'robot'). I don't mind toys where assembly is part of the fun, buy this is more of assembly to skip the manufacturing cost because running the wires through the intricate body is a very precise task. I also think this toy, fully assembled would be worth a small fraction of the list price, and be much more fun. I do not see the value here, but it's a large lizard that does most of what it's advertised.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2025 by Cameron
This kit is a fun STEM project, but definitely not a solo build for kids. It ended up being more of an adult build with kids watching and sort of helping. There are a ton of tiny parts, wires, screws, etc., that can get complicated in a hurry. The book that comes with it tries to be depict it as best as possible but it can get confusing at points. Never used the video walk through and only used the book. Once finished, the chameleon looks great and has some fun features—color-changing belly, tongue movement, and simple coding cards. The coding isn’t super advanced and can be a little glitchy, but my kids still think it’s awesome. Price point is so-so and I would not leave this in the hands of a kid who is tough on toys as it may not hold up. Overall, a very challenging but rewarding project best for older kids with adult help.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2025 by J&S