Nano Playsets — walls, loops and a launcher

How this shelf runs

Once you own more than two nanos the question changes from what do they do to where do they go. Flexible connectable walls answer it: pen them into a loop, build a dead end and watch a bot reverse itself out of it, or drop in a merry-go-round and let the swarm spin itself silly.

The launcher is the travel half of the same idea. Six bots clip inside a hard case, the lid becomes the ramp, and one button sends a nano out across a kitchen table. We keep one in a rucksack on the bench for exactly this reason — a hotel floor is a perfectly good arena.

How kids build for these HEX BOTS robot toys

A playset is not a robot. Nano Land is over forty connectable pieces and the On-The-Go Launcher is a carry case that fires six nano bots into the room. They exist to give the HEX BOTS robot toys somewhere to go, and kids spend as much time building the track as watching the bots run it.

The walls and loops steer by contact — no remote, and no control over the actions once a bot is loose, which is exactly what makes a run worth watching. Children stay engaged because the layout is theirs: move one wall and the whole experience changes. Friends build from opposite ends and race. The play that follows is as much about the barriers as the bots.

Nothing here climbs or lights up by itself, and nothing is educational in the robot-kit sense; the design is a toy track, not a lesson. Age on these boxes starts at four years. The nanos themselves live on their own shelf and the gecko wall crawlers with their climbing on another, so the movement a playset adds is all about where a bot bounces next and what it hits on the way.

• Wall Crawlers
• Robotic Creatures
• Nano Bots
• Pick your crawler
• Charge & care