WowWee Ltd. is a privately held, Hong Kong-based company that was founded in 1988, and started as an independent research & development and manufacturing outfit that was focused on incorporating cutting-edge technology into toys and other entertainment products. As an OEM seller, they produced products like the Power Rangers Power Gloves and Animal Planet Animaltronics (for Toys "R" Us). In the late 1990s, they started producing products under their own brand, WowWee. Early prodcuts at this stage included the Dinotronics RC T-Rex, and Megabyte Dog. 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The phrase research and development (also R and D or R&D) has a special commercial significance apart from its conventional coupling of scientific research and technological development. ... Manufacturing, a branch of industry which accounts for about one-quarter of the worlds economic activity, is the application of tools and a processing medium to the transformation of raw materials into finished goods for sale. ... A teddy bear A toy is an object meant to be played with. ... OEM is an acronym for either of the following: Original Equipment Manufacturer Office of Emergency Management. ... The Saban era logo for Power Rangers The shows adapted from the Japanese tokusatsu Super Sentai franchise, but is not simply an English dub of the original. ... Toys R Us is a toy store chain based in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. ... Germans dancing on the Berlin Wall in late 1989, the symbol of the cold war divide falls down as the world unites in the 1990s. ...

Their breakthrough came in 2004 with the release of the Robosapien which was developed by physicist/roboticist, Mark Tilden. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... RoboSapien is a toy-like biomorphic robot designed by Mark Tilden and produced by Wow Wee toys. ... ... Definition A roboticist conceptualizes, designs, builds, programs, and experiments with robots. ... Mark W. Tilden is perhaps most well known for his invention of BEAM robotics. ...

Some of their other robotics products include the B.I.O. Bug (2001), BittiBites (2002), Constructobots (2003), Robosapien V2 (2005), Roboreptile (2006), the RS Media (2006) and the FlyTech Dragonfly (2006/2007?). It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with robot. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A Roboreptile showing remote control and hood. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

They have offices worldwide, including in Montréal, Québec, Canada and Hong Kong (People's Republic of China). This article needs cleanup. ... Hong Kong (香港; Cantonese IPA: ; Jyutping: hoeng1 gong2; Yale: heūng góng; pinyin: Xiānggǎng; Wade-Giles: Hsiang-kang) is one of the two Special Administrative Regions of the Peoples Republic of China. ...

External links

• Official company website
• RoboCommunity - The official WowWee Robotics user community
• Hands-on with the new Wowwee bots (Engadget, January 6, 2006): A preview of three upcoming robots: the Robosapien RS2 Media, the Roboreptile, and the P-Bot
• Live from CES: Robosapien Roundup (Gizmodo, January 7, 2006)