mBot S.T.E.M. Educational Robot - Great intro to robotics? 

My wild guess will be that this guy is the only one in the LMG smart enough to make this robot work, and that is why he is in this video

Seeing Taran was a nice surprise. Great review and nice integration with the advertisement. Linus needs to take tips for the transition and relation to the content with the advertisement. Bring more Taran!

Taran is a lot better at this then I remember in the past. Very smooth and enjoyable review.

WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE (Not LinusMediaGroup) You subscribers. What's wrong to see another guy? Stop being so fu overretarted. He's one of them who making this RU-vid channel togheter with Linus and Luke,as well as it is, as I notice Linus team can this with the quality of the videos.

This guy is the best host LTT ever had. Good clear voice, nice review and flow. Good work !

Next to Linus, Taran is the best presenter

Well I have to say Taran was a really cool host. He did a awesome job.

I really liked the review and is really refreshing see new faces (sorta :P) and new type of stuff on the channel. I totally approve this kind or review and I can't wait to see another one like this. Great job!

100% YES to more robotic videos and an absolute yes to you presenting and hosting more videos. You are animated and engaging with your speech and explanations

Awesome post actually looking forward for those reviews of other better bots and the host seems very informative he seems to have literally debugged all the flows and cons keep it up man *thumbs up*

Dude Taran, all of your videos are extremely concise and informative. I especially appreciate that you don't break the info stream constantly to make useless and cringeworthy jokes like *cough* some other hosts. Keep up the good work dude, seriously.

The Lego Mindstorms are miles better than this. I had the NXT when it first came out, and you can build a bunch of stuff with the parts and just the preloaded code. The sensors also work way better. The newest version (EV3) is a lot more advanced, comes with new parts, and you can build 17 different things with the stock instructions. It's a lot more kid-friendly, too. Expensive, but 100% worth it.

Hey this was awesome having Taran doing this video! I would like to see more vidoes with him. He does a really good job presenting the videos!

I may get that aimbot, it looks cool

very nice review Terran. pleasantly surprised with your professionalism and how comfortable you seem in front of the screen, kudos.

I like Taran. Let's have more of him!

Taran seems a much better host for technical stuff like robotics or videos which have an advanced nature to them. He seems pretty confident and certainly looks pretty knowledgeable

Wonderful video Taren, really enjoyed it hope to see you present some more

This review was way better than we are lastly getting from Linus or Luke, in-depth enough and not rushed too much. Ads to actual content ratio kept at tolerable level, I like it.

Well done, nice and honest review. Well explained the gripes with installing and setting up. Taran, you can definitely do these more often, thumbs up

LinusTechTips Great job hosting Taran - your review was thorough and fair, doing a good job putting the product's faults into the context of its target demographic and advertised use case. Your speech was well paced and clear too, without any superfluous intonations (Hi? Today we're going to talk about? The mBot?)

More Taran as a host, really well done video and enjoy the more technical maker gear!

Taran (sorry if I messed up spelling) awesome job! Glad to see you as a host and I would enjoy seeing it more often perhaps!!

I am glad that Taran is here, the Whole of linus media group doing videos would be awesome!

What a smooth speaking host. Great in-depth review Taran.

I totally agree with you Taran on getting much better robotics kits. I am currently pursuing an engineering degree, and in our first year, our project design class required us to use a VEX robotics kit to address the "problem" we were given. While the VEX and LEGO mindstorms seem more "complicated"... they really aren't. We used a proprietary language meant for these robots (RobotC), which is just basically C. Super simple. I believe the mBot makes it harder for kids to learn because of the graphical interface, it just doesn't seem as intuitive. Heck, get your kid an arduino uno instead.

Great job Taran! Great video, can't wait for more!

Great vid Taran, i am looking forward to seeing more videos form you.

Great review and presentation Taran. Looking forward to more reviews from you!

I think you were great. Honestly, I didn't feel the absence of Linus in this video. And that's saying a lot. Keep up the good work and hope to see you again.

Great video Taran you are a great reviewer on these type of in depth products!

Love it when you do a video not Linus! Please make more of you 😀

My dad got me that mindstorm kit when I was 12 and i can wholeheartedly recommend it! I spent countless days covering my room in lego and trying out new robot ideas

This guy is miles better than L&L... love the non excitable tone voice and no gesticulating... thank you! more videos like this please.

Really interesting. Robotics has always been interesting to me. Great Job Taran! Hope to see more videos from you.

Great job Taran! Awesome review! It's great to see the whole team involved in making/hosting videos. Sure I enjoy Linus and Luke, but sometimes they might need a break. A few videos from the rest of the team just adds a little more perspective to the channel. I enjoyed the video! Keep it up LinusMediaGroup!!!

I like it when people other than Linus and Luke do the videos. I mean, they are the best in front of the camera, but it's nice to have some variation on who I watch every once in a while.

Taran did a really good job on this video. Bravo Taran, keep them coming

Great video Taran. And yes, please more robotics videos.

Nice work taran, great informative video, great hosting abilities.

Great presenting, cool topic, hope to see the other manufacturers dropping in a review sample!

very nice review Taran. keep those coming!

Good job, Taran. Loved the review!

Good job hosting. Information was clear and understandable.

Great review Taran. Really enjoyed it.

I thank you for this honest reviews. I wish for more reviews that has to do with educations in future.

I really dig Taran as a host! It helps a bit that I went to school for robotics, so the content was right up my alley. I'd love to see more videos with him as the host, and more robot content!

I helped my son assemble and program a new mBot that he got last week. We had none of the issues that the author of this video had with setting up or using the software to program the bot. Assembly was straightforward as well. I agree that they will run into the limits of this robot pretty quickly, but it's a good start for the $50 price. FWIW, I helped them program the three modes that the default program performed so that they could get experience with the sensors and motors.

That was a really good review. Thanks Taran!

I love Linus Tech tips and have been watching for awhile. I actually like this host better for non-computer or computer part reviews like this one. Well done. [slow clap]

Thank you Taran. I was thinking about getting one for my son's birthday in August. I'm now getting a Raspberry PI based Robot kit from Dawn Robotics that includes wifi and a camera module. There's opencv based computer vision projects specifically for the platform so hope my son will have fun with it for a while.

I really like the way you reviewed it! Great job!

Nice Work Taran. I was just thinking that your doing great after the initial shock of seeing someone new (20secs). Hope to see more of you and Keep up the great work!

Noice video Taran. Love the format and good info

Taran. You're a natural man. Come back and do more.

I was a lil surprised not to see Linus doing this video but nonetheless it was a great video and great presentation! More videos like this please!!!

Taran killed it on this review. Awesome job

I think this is the first Taran video I've seen and I'm blown away at how professional he is. Luke and Linus are great and entertaining, but listening to this guy is like listening to someone with a Ph.D present research and that's not a bad thing.

This is the type of video you should always do Great vid!

GJ hosting Taran and I'd like to see more robotics on the channel

Taran is great as a presenter. He uses skills other than reading from the spec sheet, puts in quality test time before a product review and gives a clear and honest opinion of the product.

Nice to see Taran on camera, especially doing stuff like this. Keep up the good work! To all you haters asking for only Luke and Linus... I'm sure Taran loves you, so cut him some slack.

Taran was great at hosting. Keep up the good work, all of you :)

You are a great host! Keep'em coming!

I did vex and lego robotics in highschool. It was very fun building for each competition!

I really enjoy occasional reviews for goofy little products like this, and Taran is certainly the man for the job, I'd love to see more.

Taran, you are great! I like your style. Keep up the good work!

Taran you bossed this review, so damn professional. Also my 2 cents on this is I used the mindstorms kit in uni and programmed it using java and a lejos api, it's really fun when you are making progress and super satisfying seeing your code being executed in a physical thing moving about. However when its not going well and its down to some bug because your working with beta software built on top of alpha software or something similar it can infruariting. Also to my knowledge the mindstorms kit can't take advantage of multi threading either, ran into this problem when we were trying to localise our bot in a maze.

You go Taran!! I enjoy your videos mate!

I realy want to see this guy again, very good video... And I personaly recomend to the people interested in robotics, to start making his own robots... You learn more. Great chanel!

Hey LTT/Taran, nice job on switching up the hosting more - Taran you did an awesome job - more please! xD

Awesome video Taran!

I remember when Taran first made a video on Techquickie and back then i didnt like his presentation style. but in this video hes definitely a lot more personable and shows more of his character, hes less stiff and he is more natural which makes me feel like hes more genuine. definitely a job well done. i enjoyed this video

Taren did a great job withe the video, it seamed much more professional then usual

nice vid Teranc could really tell how much work you put into into, I'm not really the target consumer for such a product but it was still interesting to learn about. Would be definitely curious to see what other robotics products are available for a more experienced user.

Not bad this guy sure knows hownto make a review i like it because he speaks nice and clear :) you are not bad like a host

Thanks Terran, Please keep up with robotic videos

Good video. I'm interested in getting into electronics in general so I'd love to see more robotics videos. I'm also a huge fan of Taran as a host, the first Tech Quickie video I watched was hosted by him and I liked it a lot. More if this guy.

Loved the Video. Good Job Taran. I would love to see more videos like this as i have kids and would love to get them into robotics if they like it. I can imagine if we would have started with mBot we would have ended it there.

LinusTechTips I really enjoyed this episode with Taran! He is a wonderful host and would love to see him more often. I also would LOVE to see some more robotics reviews and content on the channel because quite frankly, there isn't really any other channel on RU-vid that I know of that does a lot of robotics stuff. By the way I am really enthusiastic about robotics because I was on my school's LEGO FLL team and have experience with NXT programming and building. We went to the regional competition for our area and was one of three teams that made it to the state competition. Also, my school's VEX robotics team made it to the National competition in Kentucky. Sorry for being so long-winded but I just wanted to let you know. Good luck guys and hope to see some more robotics stuff soon!

Great review. Love this guy.

Taren is SO good in front of the camera when there is a script. :-)

I was unpleasantly surprised to see Taran, but he really killed it in this video and I definitely wouldn't mind seeing him as a host more often! I might even appreciate it. Consumer robots is a niche in which I as a viewer would be quite interested.

Great video! Loved the review!!

Great job Taran! You should do more videos!

Good host , good review, and kept me from making a mistake in buying the product. Thanks!

Taran did a better job then I expected him to. Please put him in more videos reviewing things Linus!

Great job Taran. Keep it up

Nice "hosting" Taran! Greetings from Argentina!

I think youre a good host. You are well spoken and look the part for items such as these reviewed.

Holy shit Taran, didn't think you'd be this good at presenting! More please!

We want more Taran! You're doing mighty fine dude!

Taran is one hardcore thug. Great video!

Do more of these videos, PLEASE!

Awesome Seeing Taran, nice change and hes very well spoken. Would Love to see more of Taran!

You were very fair, and yes more videos about robots. And tell Linus to put a firepoll in the new building!

loved this video. i would like to see some more software videos.

I did one like that as a project for my class. That's not something to get fascinated with, but it would be nice to see "new" projects.

I would very strongly recommend the Lego Mindstorm kits if you are looking for an introduction to robotics, it has loads of modular attachments and is compatible with all lego and the software is pretty easy to use, although it is pretty expensive but durable.

Good work Taran!