# WowWee Alive Chimpanzee > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/WowWee_Alive_Chimpanzee > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/WowWee_Alive_Chimpanzee.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WowWee_Alive_Chimpanzee > Source revision: 1337943546 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Animatronic chimpanzee robot This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This article relies excessively on references to primary sources. Please improve this article by adding secondary or tertiary sources. Find sources: "WowWee Alive Chimpanzee" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2011) (Learn how and when to remove this message) The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Find sources: "WowWee Alive Chimpanzee" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this message) (Learn how and when to remove this message) A WowWee Alive Chimpanzee at the [Georgia Institute of Technology](/source/Georgia_Institute_of_Technology) The **Alive Chimpanzee** is produced by WowWee Alive, a division of [WowWee Ltd.](/source/Wow_Wee) The [animatronic](/source/Animatronic) Chimpanzee is the first in WowWee Alive's product line. Unlike WowWee's other robots, the Chimpanzee only consists of the head of a [chimpanzee](/source/Common_chimpanzee). It houses eight [motors](/source/Electric_motor) to [mimic](/source/Mimic) the facial expressions of a real chimp. It also contains 9 sensors, including [IR](/source/Infrared) [sensors](/source/Sensors) in the eyes, touch sensors on the chin, top and rear of the head and sound and [vibration](/source/Vibration) sensors in the ear. There is also an Alive [Elvis](/source/Elvis) manufactured. In attempting to make the Chimpanzee as [realistic](/source/Realism_(arts)) as possible, each strand of hair is rooted individually into the [skin](/source/Skin) of the robot and the skin moves and is colored to match realistic skin tones, including [veining](/source/Vein). As with other WowWee robots, the Chimpanzee can be operated in different modes; in its case, the modes are Alive, Guard, Program, Demo and Sleep. A [Popular Science](/source/Popular_Science) article on Halloween decorating describes how one can remove the robot's skin to create a [Terminator](/source/Terminator_(character))-like robot face.[1] ## Features Some of the Chimpanzee's notable features are: - [Mood](/source/Emotional_mood) dependent behavior: responds to [stimuli](/source/Stimulus_(physiology)) with mood specific [animations](/source/Animations) and sounds - [Infrared](/source/Infrared) [vision](/source/Visual_perception) system: detects movement, tracks objects and reacts to [human interaction](/source/Human_robot_interaction) - Touch sensors in his chin, head and ears - [Stereo](/source/Stereo) sound sensors detect loud sounds - Remote control or [autonomous](/source/Autonomous) interactivity - [Visual](/source/Visual) and [sonic](/source/Sound) guard mode - Program mode - [Sleep](/source/Sleep) mode **Four Moods:** - [Curious](/source/Curious) - [Fearful](/source/Fearful) - [Happy](/source/Happiness) - [Angry](/source/Angry) **Modes of Operation:** - Alive: default mode. Reacts to [sensory input](/source/Sensory_Reception), and performs autonomous actions. - Direct Control: responds to user commands. - Program: Up to 20 distinct steps (movements and sounds) can be entered in an ordered [sequence](/source/Sequence) that will be stored and can be played back at a later time. - Guard: Uses the vision and sound sensors to detect intruders around it, and reacts in response, either with a [random](/source/Random) animation or if a program has been entered. - [Demo](/source/Demo_mode): runs through 2 or 3 random animations. - Sleep: the Chimpanzee will power down after a preset amount of time without activity. ## See also - [AIBO](/source/AIBO) - [Humanoid robot](/source/Humanoid_robot) - [Roboraptor](/source/Roboraptor) - [Roboreptile](/source/Roboreptile) - [Robosapien v2](/source/Robosapien_v2) - [WowWee](/source/Wow_Wee) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Prochnow, Dave (26 September 2006). ["Scare Tactics"](http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2006-09/scare-tactics). [Popular Science](/source/Popular_Science). Retrieved 2015-05-25. ## External links - [WowWee Alive](http://www.WowWeeAlive.com/) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20140112155931/http://wowweealive.com/) 2014-01-12 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) - WowWee Alive Product site v t e WowWee Robotics RoboSapien Robosapien v2 RS Media Roboreptile Roboraptor Roboquad Robopanda Roboboa Alive Chimpanzee FlyTech Bladestar FlyTech Dragonfly Rovio FemiSapien --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [WowWee Alive Chimpanzee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WowWee_Alive_Chimpanzee) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WowWee_Alive_Chimpanzee?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.