The Robopanda uses interchangeable cartridges that contain personalities, stories and songs, and is controlled directly by touch and sound sensors.
Robopanda will also recognize the minipanda accessory (with embedded RFID) when in Friend mode.
Robopanda can be 'programmed' by moving its arms and legs while in the Tricks setting of Training mode.
Robopanda will then play back the sequence of movements; this is similar to the Puppet mode in other WowWee robots such as Robosapien v2.
The program memory holds a limited number of movements, and the sequence of moves is retained in the cartridge only while it is inserted in Robopanda.