With a full suite of mechanical design and prototyping capabilities, Nidona is a standalone toy development avialable for consulting.

The hit robotic toy "Dave the Funky Monkey" had a novel mechanism using just two motors for four degrees of freedom, providing a highly animated robotic buddy toy. It came with a shoulder mount to allow the user to interact with other people using the hidden RF remote control.

The Dave toy sold over 300,000 units worldwide and was one of the top selling toys in the UK.

Nidona has extensive experience in design for both prototyping and manufacture with many years of injection molding experience. We can partner with you to provide mold-ready parts for complex robotic toy mechanisms, and we have also a full suite of prototyping capabilites including hardware / software integration for toy prototypes.

Specializing in novel mechanisms and in partucular single motor solutions for actuating multiple motions using cams and linkages, Nidona is ready to provide you with a turnkey solution to all your robotic toy design needs.

Our skills and expertise includes:

• Complex and novel toy mechanism design
• Design for manufacture / molding
• Rapid prototyping
• Hardware / software / electronics integration
• Control software development