On the bench
The scorpion is our favourite desk drop. It does not move any differently from the spiders, but the tail changes how fast people react — we have timed it, and it is not close.
The claws and the raised tail do their work before the bot has moved at all. Kids leave this one on a desk for friends to find, which is the prank the shape was designed for, and the fun survives a cell swap with a coin and a steady hand.
Like the spiders it has no remote, no remote control box, no lights and nothing rechargeable — the movement is three button cells and a curved walk. Experimenting is a question of surface and placement: slate lets it turn and keep going on an almost endless loop, a rug ends the run early.
It sits on the nano bots shelf, in among the rest of the HEX BOTS robotic toys, so it went through the same yardstick as every other bot there before it got a card here.
Numbers our mechanic logged
Sizes, cells and surfaces below are what came off the bench; the ages are the maker’s call, not ours.
- ControlOne switch, runs itself
- Power3 LR44 cells, included
- FloorHard floors, not carpet
- Ages4 to 6 and up
- ShelfNano Bots
Who plays with it, and what stands next to it
Customers buy the scorpion as the prank of the three. Play is the same switch-and-go routine, but the raised tail changes the reaction, and the fun is in choosing where to leave it. The design is pocket-sized, the crawling walk is cool on tile, and at this money it is the gift you add to a bigger one.
Spiders in green and red share the chassis if the scorpion silhouette is too much. Climbing is a different shelf: the gecko crawlers hold smooth walls, one of them glow-in-the-dark.
Getting it, swapping it
Delivery, tracking, swaps and warranty claims are handled on the order page of the store you bought from — they hold the order, we hold the bench. Read how we split that in Doorstep & swaps.
The instructions in the box run to one sheet; our charge and care guide covers cells, run life and storage between runs. Surfaces and charging questions come to bench@hexbots.pages.dev, Mon to Fri, 9am to 6pm ET.
