Penn & Teller MAGIC LAB VR vs KAI Robotics
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Penn & Teller MAGIC LAB VR
Learn and perform over 30 magic tricks with virtual reality guidance from Penn & Teller. This app requires a physical kit and book for full interactive functionality, offering an immersive learning experience.
- Over 30 magic tricks
- Interactive learning format
- 360 virtual reality experience
- Step-by-step trick guidance
- Companion app for physical kit
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Join Penn and Teller onstage in the Penn & Teller MAGIC LAB VR. This immersive magic experience features over 30 amazing tricks in an easy interactive learning format! Penn & Teller will help you gain confidence and give you a creative edge while exploring their curated selection of popular magic tricks – from rope tricks to card tricks. You’ll get to step on the Penn & Teller stage to see the tricks performed up close as each step comes alive in full 360 virtual reality. This is a companion app. Requires printed book found in physical kit for full functionality.
KAI Robotics
Build and control an AI robot using your device. Collect data, train the AI model with gestures and sounds, and then play with your robot. Offers remote control and customization options for the robot's LED display.
- Build an AI robot
- Gesture recognition control
- Sound recognition control
- Train AI models
- Offline data processing
- Remote control mode
- Customizable LED display
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The app for KAI: The Artificial Intelligence Robot STEM Experiment Kit: Safely explore and understand AI and the future of advanced computing technology. With the physical expeiment kit, build your own six-legged, artificial intelligence robot that moves by reacting to the gestures and sounds that you make! There are three steps to create a functioning AI model that allows you to control your robot using poses or sounds: 1. Collect data. 2. Train the AI model with your data. 3. Play with your robot using the AI model. Collect data: Use the app to easily collect the data you need to assign your own movements or sounds to your robot's functions, enabling it to walk, turn, and stop; explore the concept of machine learning as your AI robot learns the gestures and sounds to better perform the assigned functions. Gesture recognition: Choose a gesture or movement to assign to a specific function of your physical robot. For example, you can raise your right arm to trigger the "move right" function. Sound recognition: Choose a sound to assign to a specific function of your physcial robot. For example, you can whistle or clap to trigger the "move right" function. Train the AI model: The data you collected forms a dataset which is then used to create an AI model that your robot can learn from. Play with your robot: Now you can perform the poses or sounds you assigned to various actions and control your robot to move in specific ways! Additionally, the app allows you to play with the robot in remote control mode: - Use the virtual joystick or position sensor of your phone/tablet to move your robot without utilizing any of its AI functions. - Tap on predetermined facial expressions to change the face on the robot’s LED display, or use the draw or text button to customize the facial expression or text that appears on the LED display. The app has been developed to keep your data as safe and private as possible. The app works completely offline, without connection to the Internet, meaning that all calculations are made locally on your device and no image or audio data is stored by the app. This has been confirmed by an independent data protection expert. The full functionality of the app is only available in combination with the physical KAI: The Artificial Intelligence Robot STEM Experiment Kit. ***** Questions or suggestions for improvements: Mail to apps@kosmos.de We are looking forward to your feedback! ****
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: KAI Robotics at 3.6 against Penn & Teller MAGIC LAB VR's 2.8. Penn & Teller MAGIC LAB VR's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 16 months). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
KAI Robotics holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 12 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 33% of Penn & Teller MAGIC LAB VR's written reviews are positive against 27% of KAI Robotics's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Penn & Teller MAGIC LAB VR ships an update every 2 months, KAI Robotics every 16 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Penn & Teller MAGIC LAB VR | KAI Robotics |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (5 ratings) | 3.6 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better | 27.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 12 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 16 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3.4 GB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Abacus | Franckh-Kosmos Verlags GmbH & Co. KG |
Customer experience
Penn & Teller MAGIC LAB VR
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In-app purchases
Penn & Teller MAGIC LAB VR
No in-app purchases
KAI Robotics
No in-app purchases
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