WHAT IF lego made a robotic minifig for 500 dollars each would you buy it?

[Sulfate]

it would be badass to see these construct their own city.

[Ad Bot]

[The Corporation]

it would be badass to see these construct their own city.

*Cough*

[Black and White]

it would be badass to see these construct their own city.

Yess

[Lørd Tøny]

It wasnt fun to begin with.

Why a Minifig? Why not a Robotic Spider? That can fly. That would of been more awesome

You are the only one complaining, you use to be cool about stuff like this.

[Sulfate]

*Cough*

except that's gay  

[Menen]

You are the only one complaining, you use to be cool about stuff like this.

Implying im not. I am simply stating it is not possible without modifying the generic look of the mini figure. Maybe in 10-15 years this could be possible. Sadily Lego doesnt use robotics that often (except for its Robot sets). And it would cost way more than 100 dollars

[Regulith]

I am simply stating it is not possible without modifying the generic look of the mini figure. Maybe in 10-15 years this could be possible. Sadily Lego doesnt use robotics that often (except for its Robot sets). And it would cost way more than 100 dollars

"what if" does not require that the subject is possible or even logical

[masterockets]

There is the possibility that buying a 100$ minifig robot entitles you to go on the internet from whereever and such, maybe they would have little battle arenas for them or something

or a contest to see how many hats you can get on your minifig 

[Flamecannon]

the question is what if
dont question it

[Menen]

"what if" does not require that the subject is possible or even logical

In my mind, logic comes first in any question.

Regardless, The other side of my brain thinks this idea should not be limited to mini figures.

of course, with these robotic minifigs you could spy on people. seems kinda bad.

[Black and White]

*Cough*

Addendum 387-6: Jesus loving Christ. - Dr. Arch

Ohlord I loled harder than I should have and I still am

[Reactor Worker]

We have the technology to make such a device but you wouldn't be able to achieve such a low cost. We have motors, sensors, and processors that can be built at that scale but it is expensive.

There are two other limitations: energy density and vision. The robots would have to be powered remotely, either by a wire, running current through the surface they operate on, or via wireless power transmission. None are ideal for what you are trying accomplish. The second limitation, vision, demands you have an external vision system, like a webcam, "seeing" for the robots.

It would be a tremendous challenge to engineer such a robot and it would be entirely pointless. The cost of such a device would easily exceed any entertainment value gained from building it so small. You could make a larger version but bringing the cost down to $100 would result in significant feature and/or performance losses. It's much wiser to make purpose-built robots for specific functions, like assembling blocks or interacting with human subjects, without the arbitrary size limitations.

[VerticalHorizon]

Regular Lego sets cost $100+ anyway.

[Eeposs]

/obsessionwithchildhood!

[Becquerel]

Hell no I wouldnt buy this. I dont want SkyNet taking my Bot over and destroying Humanity with it. Nuh uh. Im sticking with the good ol' Regular Minifigure.