OLLO: A little bit LEGO, a little bit Meccano, a whole lot cute robots

Frankie writes:

During the Tokyo Toy Show the Japanese company Robotis (famous for the Bioloid robot kits) showed the final version of the OLLO build system.

OLLO is a mix of Lego Technics, Meccano and Tamiya educational model kits.

The pieces are pretty small but the special tool made by Robotis is pretty helpful. I'm playing with a beginner kit and it's really fun (I confess that, being a Lego maniac, at the beginning I was a little bit sceptic about OLLO).

His post on the product is all in Italian, but you get the gist. If I'm not mistaken I'd seen the larger set of "Bioloid" kits from the same company at the New York Toy Fair. They were really neat, but also quite expensive, so seeing a smaller, cheaper set of kits is great news. Hopefully we'll get these in North America!

Robotis Ollo: Il modellismo robotico incontra il Lego… [HobbyMedia.it]

[#1 posted by Anonymous , June 30, 2008 12:17 AM]

Isn't ROBOTIS a Korean company?
Great that they have something for younger children too!

[#2 posted by Anonymous , January 16, 2009 1:28 AM]

You can view kits of OLLO in sell at this address:

http://ro-botica.com/ollo.asp?cat=14

In my opinion is more LEGO Mindstorms than Meccano