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11 Oct, 2008

Robo Japan 2008: Takara Tomy’s i-SOBOT

Posted by: brb In: Robo-Japan 2008| Robots| Tech ()

I just came back from Robo Japan, which is held in Minato Mirai, near Yokohama. The first batch of pictures from the exhibit is the i-SOBOT, winner of Japan’s Good Design award and billed by the company as Guiness-certified “world’s smallest humanoid robot in production”. (The Japanese brochure actually says, translated, “the world’s smallest bipedal humanoid mass-produced robot.”) It is indeed small, just 16.5cm in height, or about 1/10th of a typical Japanese.

I has a built-in repertoire of 180 words, 200 movements and 90 sounds and automatically maintains its balance with the help of 17 tiny servo motors and gyro-sensors. It can programmed.

Takara Tomy’s booth has a row of these i-SOBOTS colored and labeled with the names of many countries:

Russian i-SOBOT.

Chinese i-SOBOT.

Korean i-SOBOT.

British i-SOBOT.

Japanese i-SOBOT.

American i-SOBOT.

French i-SOBOT.

German i-SOBOT.

Italian i-SOBOT.

Related posts:

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  3. Robo Japan 2008: ACM-R5 Snake Robot
  4. Robo-Japan 2008: A whole lotta robots
  5. Robo Japan 2008: Hello Kitty Robo

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December 19th, 2008 at 12:55 am

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[...] 18, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of Japan has announced Takara Tomy’s i-Sobot as “Robot of the Year” for 2008. The award was established by METI in 2006 to promote [...]

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