Intro: 

The space has a Dagu 'Adventure Robot'. It's a really nice piece of kit and although cheap, is very expressive and fun to play with. 

The documentation on the robot is a bit sparse. You can buy one from here:

http://littlebirdelectronics.com/products/adventure-robot-kit

And some other downloads are here:

https://sites.google.com/site/daguproducts/home/download-page

Using the robot:

Feel free to reprogram the robot and try him out. 

Code to use the robot with arduino is here (locally mirrored in case Dagu goes down):

Adventure Bot instruction manual.pdf

Adventure_Robot.zip - code to use in the arduino IDE. 

The robot is arduino compatible, with an Atmega168 chip on board, and a USB port, so all you need to do is plug it in to program.