The highly anticipated new spy robot kit Spyke is available for pre-order on Amazon.com.

Erector Spyke or Meccano Spyke as it's known in Europe, is a robot kit that allows you to build different robots that can roam around your house remotely. Via a video camera and WiFi you can see what Spyke sees over the Internet. I am so going to spy on my cat.

Amazon.com is offering Spyke for $279.99.
Spyke starts to ship on October 22nd.

Features of the Spyke robot include Wi-fi connection, remote control via Internet, video camera, VOIP phone and webcam functionality, music player and auto parking to recharge.

Spyke was announced at the CES 2007. See photos of Spyke in our gallery.