Japanese toymaker Tomy Company employee Chie Yamada poses with the
"Omnibot17u i-SOBOT", listed by the Guinness Book of Records as the world's
smallest humanoid robot in production, 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 speak about 180
vocabularies and has about 200 different types of action patterns. The robot
will go on sale in Japan on October 25 for a price of 29,800 yen (about $243),
the company said. [Reuters]
