Melanie,
I'm hoping that you just got a bad one for your gift.
With only 4 wires required to interface with it, it seems like it was designed to be hacked. And, from the number of sites on the web showing how to hack it. There's a lot of people doing it.
Here's an interesting picture of one competition of modified RoboSapiens at the RoboCup German Open 2005 in Paderborn.
Once you're there, zoom the picture to full size for best view. Although these were modified with PDA's in their heads (I'm not going that far), it does seem to illustrate their potential.
As for that 12 inches. It's called a Foot. So unless you have some kind of Foot Fetish (not typical for girls) you'll have to find some other use for that 12 inches. You little tease you
ADDED: I figured it would go thru a lot of batteries like you said. I'm thinking of making them rechargable. Maybe put some contacts in his feet, so when he walks on a platform, the batteries get recharged. But then there's that lower voltage problem. Maybe he'd run too slow on that voltage. Hmmmm
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