For some one staring into non wheel robotics (have experience with wheled ones) is the Bioloid premium worth it???
Or should i look at something else??
Worth it? That is always a difficult question to answer.
The real question is if that is the direction you wish to go. For me probably not. I started off with a Robonova and found that I was not really that interested in doing a biped robot… Why? because at that time you mainly spent your time trying to keep it from falling down. I thought I would enjoy it, but quickly lost interest in it. However others find that challenge very interesting and do great work with it. So each of us have to find our interests.
After I lost interest in the Robonova, I was very tempted to purchase a bioloid kit (at that time I really liked the puppy 
) But at that time there were no US distributors, so that is when I purchased my first hexapod robot and have had fun with it and several others ever since. So what is right for you? Only you will know and it may not be what you think now… The nice thing about SES stuff as well as the Bioloid stuff is that you can often retarget the parts for a new project if the current one does not turn out.
Kurt
Well the only reason i was looking at was just because i could build a quadpod, hexapod, biped, etc, etc with it… So if i wanted to do a quadpod i didnt have to purchase extra hardware… I was very close to buy the phantom X kit they sell but not im undecided…
I will get a delivery on the parts for my biped tomorrow… (dont know if you remember) it will be based on the Lynxmotion ironman. So ill probably wait a bit and see how that goes before i go and spend more money
When I was looking to purchase my first robot, I too kept looking at the Bioloid Premium kit, as the different “bodies” you could build looked pretty cool. But then you look at the online videos of these, and they’re pretty crappy, all the different “bodies” don’t do anything particularly well. The final straw was that it’s all made of plastic, and proprietary parts, so if something dies you’re stuck with only purchasing Bioloid parts.
I liked Lynxmotion products because they largely use standard parts (eg. servos, screws, motors, electronics) and their models are eminently more “hackable” than any other robot kits. Their quality of components also shines. I ended up buying a Lynxmotion Johnny 5 kit last year and haven’t looked back, only really scraped the surface with what I’d like to do with it.
JB