Japanese toymaker Tomy Company's 'Omnibot17u i-SOBOT', listed by
the Guinness Book of Records as the world's smallest humanoid robot in
production, are displayed 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. The robot in the front is a mock version. [Reuters]
