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.
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