Are the robot hamsters dumb or cool?

I haven’t been a kid in a long time, but something about robot pet toys strikes me as wrong. Anyway, I happened to be at Toys R Us this morning at a lucky enough moment to witness moms picking apart a new shipment of these robot hamster things and calling all their mommy friends to rush down to the store to get them because Toys R Us would only sell one per person.

So are they all that and do kids really like them? What age are they good for?