Name: Kamigami
Brand: Dash Robotics
Availability: LimitedAvailability

Dash Robotics (USA), later with Mattel Kamigami (1)

Dash Robotics (USA), later with Mattel Kamigami (2)

Dash Robotics (USA), later with Mattel Kamigami (3)

$50 – $70Kickstarter price $49 against a planned $69 MSRP (October 2015). The Mattel edition launched October 12, 2017 at $49.99 (Amazon, Target, Toys"R"Us) with $9.99 shell packs. Discontinued, so only used or leftover stock remains (October 2026 check, prices vary).

Discontinued · used/leftover onlyPalm-sizedFold-it-yourselfSix legsDiscontinued

Possibly ≤ 1 weekShipping: Unconfirmed. Discontinued. Amazon lists the robots as discontinued by the manufacturer, so used and leftover units on eBay and marketplace sellers are the only source, and the app may not run on a current phone.

Mattel launch press release (2017) ↗Dash Robotics launch (2015) ↗IEEE Spectrum ↗IEEE Robots Guide ↗Discontinuation note (Nebraska Library Commission) ↗

Overview

A six-legged running robot that is folded together from flat laser-cut sheets in under an hour, with no tools. It came from Dash Robotics, founded in 2013 by UC Berkeley PhD students, and its cockroach-style legs descend directly from Berkeley's DASH research robot. Mattel took it to mass retail in 2017 with eight insect shells and later a Jurassic World raptor. It has since been discontinued, and the app no longer installs on current Android phones and works only on older iOS devices.

A clever, fast little walker, but buy one only as a collectible since the app has been abandoned.

Specifications

Category	Multi-legged robots · Hobby hexapod kits
Released	2015
Country	USA
Availability	Discontinued · used/leftover only
Sales	697 Kickstarter backers, $60,710 raised (2015, estimate) CITRIS ↗
Programmability	Full SDK on pricier tier only
Built-in autonomy	Reactive · Responds to its surroundings without a map, such as avoiding obstacles or following a person
LLM support	None · No LLM features and no public SDK, only the official app.
MuJoCo simulation	None found · Nothing found.
NVIDIA Isaac simulation	None found · Nothing found.
Gazebo simulation	None found · Nothing found.
Best for	Ages 8+ (estimated)
Vision sensors	No vision sensors
Actuators	DC / gear motors
Audio	No audio
Compute type	Arduino / ESP32 / microcontroller
Compute	Nordic Semiconductor low-power Bluetooth SoC (per IEEE Robots Guide)
Weight	About 40 g (IEEE Robots Guide, unconfirmed)
Speed	About 4.4 km/h (1.2 m/s) per IEEE Robots Guide (unconfirmed)
Legs / DOF	2 DC motors drive 6 legs through a folded linkage
Sensors	3-axis accelerometer, 3-axis gyroscope, ambient light, IR transmitter and two IR receivers (robot-to-robot battles), tri-color LEDs
SDK	Kamigami app with drag-and-drop programming (iOS, Android). No public API