We know what it's like. Sometimes when the conversation naturally sags, it can be difficult to bring it back to life. Now, you can put your conversational foibles to one side with the help of the highly communicative member of the ground-breaking Spykee family - the warrior-like Spykee Vox.

Vox is not your average common-or-garden robot. He's built to communicate, listen and respond. Ask him to move and he'll take action, avoiding the obstacles in his way. Speak to him and he'll react, adopting one of two different personalities. Plug in your iPod and turn it on with voice activation and Vox will play your music in stereo and dance along. Programme advanced new actions via USB connectivity, and take control of all manner of gadgets around the home with the help of his in-built universal infra-red remote control.

Spykee Vox is not just one robot, but three in one. With three different configurations to build, there's no shortage of highly combative scenarios to construct.

Fresh from the reinvented and reinvigorated Meccano stable, the Spykee cyborg range has some dashed clever technology at its core. This awe-inspiring family of robots is preconfigured for the MP3 generation, either with in-built docking technology or USB connectivity to enable digital uploading at the touch of a button. Add it all to Spykee's ground-breaking functionality and it has us rather drooling at the mouth, in an ever-so manly way. Splendid.