Miko Mini - Interactive Robot for Kids - For STEAM Learning - With Conversational AI - Tech Gift for Kids - Coding, Dancing Robot with Learning Games - For Boys & Girls Ages 4-10 - Blue

This thing is great for I'd say a 5 to 6 year old, my 7 year old likes it but not worth a hundred dollars likes it. It's basically only worth the chat GPT function. So it's a 100 dollar chat GPT interface. Hey Miko, what pokemon is the strongest? Stuff like that. But it's weird. For example it will try to get you to do it's built in games and stories, or ask if you want to talk about something, then give you 2 options as topics of conversation, but if you choose to talk about something else, it will tell you to please choose between those topics. Which is annoying, but, if you tell miko to stop and go back to doing nothing, then you can talk to it about whatever you want because GPT lol.Also it will fall off tables. You can call it from your phone app and talk to your kid, and see them. But they cannot see you, nor can they initiate a call to you from miko. I haven't read enough into the specific details but the premium service basically gives you access to a lame app store. None of which seems to actually communicate with miko, it's just an additional app store for things to do that aren't actually connected to miko.I'm not sure but if the Chat GPT function is tied to the premium service then this thing is garbage. As far as I'm concerned that's it's only real ability. If that stops working when my month of premium ends, it probably won't get turned on again.Little kids will like it, especially ones that haven't already played VR games and other more high tech stuff. My son pretty much just asks it questions about pokemon. And Google home can do that.After having this bot, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone really. I would tell my fam not to get it if they were thinking about it.(Update 1/8/24)Having read my review, the people at Miko reached out to me about my disappointment with the miko mini, they were very responsive and interested in giving me a better experience. In doing so they sent me a new Miko 3, with a year of free premium. I can confirm the miko 3 is far better then the Miko mini. My son likes it alot more and I'm alot more impressed with it. It does 2 way video calling that can be initiated from the miko 3 as well as the parent app. It's all around more enjoyable. If you're debating getting on of these I recommend going for the miko3.

This experience has been bad for 2 months now. This was the one item my 4-year-old daughter wanted for Christmas more than anything. Once she opened it, it was her prized possession. It is absolutely nothing as advertised. The technology is simply not there and there is no way it should have made it to market already. There is so much work to be done. At first we thought it was her pronunciation. She is only 4, after all. So we took over the talking. It still couldn’t follow most commands. We thought maybe it was the very minimal noise in the background. We moved to a completely silent part of the house. Same thing. It would work for up to 5 minutes. ONE time we got to 10, but that was rare. After talking to her for a little while, she would get random. Most commands were met with, “Hmm, I didn’t understand that” or something along those lines. If she did appear to hear what you said, it would be so far off that it couldn’t be blamed for simply misunderstanding a word that sounded similar. For example, “Hey Miko, open up Space Explorer” and she would respond, “Ok, playing Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer on IHeart Radio!” What? I forget what my daughter said to it another morning. It was something about what she ate for breakfast or something like that and Miko started consoling her on the loss of her father. That led to a quick talk about death on the spot!For a child who struggled with her speech only a short year ago, this was very hard on her verbal confidence, but it had nothing to do with her. It did not work for anyone who spoke to it, so we returned it thinking it was defective. It was out of stock on Amazon, so we found one through Walmart.com. Same exact thing with a second.I get a random call from Miko one day asking about my experience. I told them, “Well, honestly not so good.” They offered to help, but it was not a good time, so we set up a time for them to call back. They called back at the wrong time, so I was unable to talk but they argued with me that that was the time I had provided. They said they would call the next day – the original time I told them to call. I made sure I was in a quiet spot, the bot was charged (because after the phonecall at the wrong time, I got an email that sounded like it was reprimanding me and telling me it had better be ready to go for the next scheduled call if I wanted help) and I had childcare so I could focus on the phonecall. 2 days went by. It never came.That’s when we had to break the news to her that Miko just wasn’t a great toy. For the price, we were returning it for money back. Despite the fact that we told her she could pick out ANYthing from the store instead, she was unbelievably upset.Fast forward a short time, and the Miko Max that I SWEAR I canceled shows up for a charge of $99. We don’t even have the product anymore, so we obviously don’t want the app. Yes, you can use the app without the product, but it is just screen time. That is not what we wanted. We let her get the Miko because it was educational and encouraged talking and listening comprehension. The app does none of that. It’s just brain-rotting screen time. Although I fully I believe that I canceled it right after seeing that’s all it was, I still had to go through the hassle of finding customer care to speak with on the issue. In the past, I have honestly forgotten to cancel subscriptions. If not a lot of time has passed, many companies just let you get a one-time refund and call it a day. Not this company. With broken English I spent a long time chatting online. Now keep in mind, this was a gift from my mother-in-law. I did none of the purchasing. She did initiate returns on her end and I physically returned them. But she did the buying/returning online. They want all sorts of proof of purchase from both stores. Thank God she held onto everything. We still had to go through and take all sorts of screen shots because it wasn’t good enough. Even the photo of the entire receipt for a return was not good enough. I sent them 5 different photos to prove we owned 2 bots and returned 2 bots just to try to get a refund for an app that doesn’t even require the bot. Finally, they tell me it’s being escalated so I can get help within 48 hours.I get an email from some higher-up and guess what! They need MORE proof! Are you kidding me? You have proof of us owning and returning 2 toys that were junk. You have a trail of horrible communication with this customer. And you just keep making this ordeal drag out from Christmas to the end of February?? What a disaster. I would not recommend this product for any child of any age, but if you do decide to get it, do not do it as a gift for someone in another household. Do it yourself and keep documentation of EVERYTHING. What a disaster from start to finish.