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Kasey the Kinderbot
TypeEducational toy
Inventor(s)Michael J. Freeman
CompanyFisher-Price
CountryUSA
Availability2002–present
Official website

Kasey the Kinderbot is an educational toy learning system sold by Fisher-Price, a wholly owned division of the Mattel Corporation and in 2002 won the Educational Toy of the Year award.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Because of its strong commercial sales, Kasey was reported as an important item in the balance sheet of Fisher-Price.[7][8][9][10][11][9][12][13][14][15][16][17]

Fisher-Price marketed Kasey the Kinderbot (robot) as able to teach 40 skills required for pre-school-readiness.[18]

History

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In 2002 Fisher-Price introduced the Kasey the Kinderbot (pictured center) Educational line of toys that was capable of teaching 40 learning skills to pre-schoolers including basic math, reading, and science.[19] "Kasey, which speaks English, Spanish, and French was Fischer-Price's first preschool electronic learning aid, a category of toys that has ballooned in recent years as parents scramble to give their children an edge well before they enter preschool".[20] Kasey has moving eyes, head, waist, arms and hands all of which are coordinated to its voice and LCD display screen. According to Fisher-Price Kasey incorporated the use of a special learning circuit for reinforcement and education.[21]

Soon after (2003) Fetch the Phonicsbot (pictured left), was introduced for phonetics education, and in 2004 Toby (pictured right) was introduced for younger children.

When initially introduced in 2002 Kasey had 8 programs planned.[22] These were released over a period of 18 months starting mid-2002 till December 2003.

Kasey is an updated version of the 2-XL Robot both within the "smart toy" genre.[23]

In start, Kasey had a smaller number of programs as compared to 2-XL as they were more complex to develop. Where 2-XL programs only had to coordinate audio tracks for for each button response, the programs for Kasey had to coordinate the Kasey voice with respective button responses in addition to the lights, movement, the LCD screen animation and menus, etc.[24]

These programs are color-coded as per their category. These include, red for Languages, green for Science, blue for Math and yellow for Reading. Introductory cartridge that is included with Kasey labeled "Kasey the Kinderbot" is purple. The introductory program stored directly in Kasey. This allows Kasey to go to the default program as the introductory one incase the cartridge slot is left empty.[25]

Kasey teaches forty different learning skills.[26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33] The line was expanded in 2004 with the introduction of Fetch to concentrate on teaching phonics, and Toby to educate younger children. Both toys expanded the Kasey the Kinderbot line and had lower price points. Kasey was reported as an important item in the balance sheet of Fisher-Price because of its strong commercial sales.[34][35][9][36][37][9][12][38][39][40][41][42]

Kasey was developed by American educator, CEO and inventor Michael J. Freeman. Freeman, was the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer (CEO) of ACTV Inc., a Nasdaq publicly traded corporation.[43][44][45][46] ACTV had a Wall street capitalization of $2 billion [47][48] and was on the 2003 list one of the fastest growing technology companies.[49] His educational inventions such as 2-XL,[50][51] Talk'N Play,[52][53] and Kasey the Kinderbot, have all won awards.[54] Freeman produced programming and licensed software to Disney, Hasbro, NBC, and others. : He is a business and corporate consultant in trend analysis, developed core technology covering touch-tone phone branching, and in 2015 he allowed for the public display of his Astolat Dollhouse Castle for charity.[55][56][57][55][58]

Kasey the Kinderbot won the Educational Toy of the Year award for 2002.[59]

Educational programs

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The Kasey educational programs were digital cartridges:[60]

  • Languages: French (2002)
  • Languages: Spanish (2002)
  • Math: Addition & More (2003)
  • Math: Numbers & Counting (2003)
  • Reading: Focus on Phonics (2003)
  • Reading: Words & Sentences (2003)
  • Science: Living Things (2002)
  • Science: Wonderful World (2002)

See also

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References

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