A doll includes a body and a head, two legs and two arms, each movably attached to the body. The doll includes a mechanism connected with the head, with each of the legs, and with the arms. The mechanism is configured to displace the legs frontwardly with respect to the body in alternating succession and to displace the head in lateral directions with respect to the body such that the head moves toward one lateral side of the body as one of the legs displaces frontwardly from the opposite lateral side of the body. Movement of the legs displaces the body of the doll in either a walking or a crawling mode. Further, a motor is connected with the mechanism to drive the mechanism to displace the legs, arms and head with respect to the body. An electrical circuit is connected with the motor and has a microphone. The circuit is configured to drive the motor when the microphone receives sound, particularly a user-generated command. Preferably, the circuit includes an integrated circuit chip configured to drive the motor for a randomly specified period of time. The mechanism preferably includes a gear train having an input end connected with the motor and output ends connected with the legs, the arms and the head. Further, the mechanism preferably includes several separate linkages connected with the legs, the arms and the head, each linkage pivoting the associated appendages or the head with respect to the body.
There is provided a robot or a picture on display, which is an embodied voice responsive toy for facilitating empathy. The toy is constructed by a voice input-output portion, a voice responsive pseudo-person, and a pseudo-person control portion, the voice input-output portion serves to input voice from the outside or output voice to the outside, and the pseudo-person control portion determines an action of the voice responsive pseudo-person from the voice passing through the voice input-output portion and actuates the voice responsive pseudo-person.
If an external force is applied to any one of the legs of a walking robot, or if the output-end gear provided in the leg stops rotating, the motor and gears for driving the leg are prevented from breaking. More specifically, the thigh section 3 of the leg comprises a slip gear 12 arranged in a column of gears. The slip gear 12 slips in the direction opposite to the direction the slip gear is rotated with a force transmitted between an electric motor 11, i.e., drive means, and the thigh section 3, when this force becomes equal to or greater than a predetermined value.
A toy figure, particularly a functional doll, includes a central torso provided with a body shell surrounding a hollow space inside the torso and several extremities such as a head, arms, and legs, which are disposed on the torso. At least the arms and legs are made of a soft elastic material. A functional unit is integrated into the toy figure for ensuring one or several functions that are typical of a functional doll. The arms and/or legs and/or the head are pivotally mounted on the torso through fluid-tight joint connections.
Realistic looking and behaving life-like toys are provided. The toys include multiple moving parts. To achieve multiple movements geneva gear assemblies are incorporated in the toys wherein each assembly is driven by a single motor and can move multiple parts simultaneously or individually.
A system and method for providing a visible marker when at least two objects are combined. The visible marker may be any desired marking but, in the preferred embodiment, is a heart-shape. The two objects may be two-dimensional, such as cards, or three-dimensional, such as toys or household items. The creation of the visible marker by bringing two objects into proximity can show common origin and manufacture and, where a heart-shape is used, can send positive social and moral messages of love and togetherness.
