World's smallest humanoid robot
(Reuters) Updated: 2007-07-20 21:13

Japanese toymaker Tomy Company's 'Omnibot17u
i-SOBOT', listed by the Guiness Book of Records as the world's smallest humanoid
robot in production, is demonstrated during a news conference in Tokyo July 20,
2007. The 16.5 cm (6.496 inches)-tall robot, powered by Sanyo Electric's eneloop
nickel-metal hydride rechargeable batteries, is able to talk about 180
vocabularies and has about 200 different types of action patterns. The robot
will go on sale in Japan for a price of 29,800 yen (about $243), the company
said. [Reuters]
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