I was recently reminiscing about my geeky childhood when I came across a memory about my first robot. I was overjoyed to get Verbot for Christmas one year, and tried desperately to make the dern thing follow my prepubescent voice commands. My only real solid memory is frustration at it not doing what I told it! But I do have vague recollections of getting it to pick up something and move around while clinging to it. Or maybe I’m just remember the commercial.

Oh Verbot, where are you now? Some landfill somewhere I imagine.